I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Fourth of July isn't all about barbecues and fireworks. It's also about freedom, liberty and the birthday of our country. Teach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in… — Samuel Dash Copy Share Image
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling. All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“A child cannot tolerate a mother’s anger. She either splits from the relationship, or she becomes terrified. Neither alternative promotes freedom and… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
Women, I learned, adapted. At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“i could go if i wanted share the floorboards with someone in a place less haunted but i like it here and… — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to… — Virginia Henderson Copy Share Image
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later… — John S. Watson Copy Share Image
All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam… — Nguyen Tan Dung Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
“But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man- that it is an… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image