Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
George Weinberg

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.
Judy Biggert

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
Robin Wright Penn

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
Ibrahim Rugova

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.
Slobodan Milosevic

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

No one was either Tory or Whig; it was either dependence or independence.
Caesar Rodney

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

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
Seth Low

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
King Albert II

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

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
James H. Douglas

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
Paul Ryan

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
Samuel Dash

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony