Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws… — John Goodwin Copy Share Image
To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must… — Arin Paul Copy Share Image
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery.… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation. — Charles E Popplestone Copy Share Image
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of… — Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao Copy Share Image
The independence of content creation without fearing what's going to be censored has relieved a lot of filmmakers in India. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“Normally, she never paid calls, not on her own. But this was life after Leo - a series of tiny, halting steps… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“the Declaration of Independence does not mean we are equal in endowments, only in rights.” — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence. — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
The best feeling in the world is being able to say you did something for yourself without the help of anyone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe in independence because this unequal Union has caused so much suffering and so much harm. — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money. — Mitra Farahani Copy Share Image
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
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