“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
In the drive to prove our status as a world-class city, let's stay true to our democratic legacy and what Boston has… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield:… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Tibet] never sought any territory. All it wanted is the conquest of the soul, that people should attain a kind of inner… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
On the issue past of independence of Germany, after the time of National Socialism, Germany has been given an enormous amount of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the nation, where the first words of the Declaration of Independence were drafted, where our Constitution was… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world,… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You have to consider that countries have now joined the EU that had no sovereignty for decades, countries like Poland, or others… — Lech Kaczynski Copy Share Image
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are an excellent deterrent against aggression, and India lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Since gaining independence in 1947, it has… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
If you ask the Polish people, I believe that a vast majority of them would say they are pleased with E.U. membership,… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
Since the struggle for our nation's independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although… — Alexander Vindman Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system,… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons,… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image