Independence Quotes · Page 48

“Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment…

— Alban Berg

I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Davy Crockett

Every party faces ups and downs. After independence, parties like Jansangh and BJP had been finished.

— Mayawati

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father…

— Thomas Jefferson

The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration…

— Rod Lurie

The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -…

— Vivian Gornick

A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples…

— Robert Kennedy

Happy BDAY. Oh no, Happy NATIONAL Day. Oh I forget, Happy ANNIVERSARY. No I Was Wrong. Happy VICTORY DAY. Oh my god…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad…

— Lee Iacocca

Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties…

— Louis D. Brandeis

That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still…

— Roland Emmerich

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration…

— Paul Begala

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be,…

— Enoch Powell

Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers…

— Walter Benjamin

In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W.…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence,…

— Mark Coleman

I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confident. The…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

— Beyonce Knowles

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I…

— Ellis Paul Torrance