Independence Quotes

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

Freedom, True, Exist

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Warren Farrell

Women, Men, Fear

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill

Society, Mind, Others

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
Susie Bright

Education, Successful, Young

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Henry Van Dyke

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
Andrew Jackson

Good, Here, Against

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant

Nature, Read, Unequal

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan

Image, Global, Electronic

Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes

Sincerity, Rebellion, Antagonism

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
David Cameron

Above, Openness, Britain

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
Dan Lipinski

Car, Help, Energy

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.
Alanis Morissette

True, Child, Grow

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Hedy Lamarr

Marriage, Important, Problem

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh

Nothing, Liberty, Precious

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
Davy Crockett

Time, Liberty, Forever

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
Rick Perry

Good, Health, Best

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
Charlize Theron

Family, Mom, Greatest

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
Pat Robertson

God, Said, Muslims

I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.
Herman Cain

Law, Trying, Country

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Children, Real, Give

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness, Courage, End

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Life, Live, Long

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
Herman Cain

Leadership, Real, Country

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Jim DeMint

Education, Health, Government

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
Salma Hayek

Love, Work, Hard

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz

Great, Freedom, Government

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
William J. H. Boetcker

Men, Courage, Character

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster

God, Living, Blessing

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
Wynton Marsalis

Change, Men, Together

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