“the fact that her children were so obviously living their own lives was bittersweet. Their independence was what you hoped for and… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence comes simply because I have… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
“Happiness, she would explain, was when a person felt good, light, creative, content, loving and loved, and free. An unhappy person felt… — Fatima Mernissi Copy Share Image
“I'm traveling a speed unknown to man and I carry love for all in the mirror of my hand. I say love… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely… — Thomas Davidson Copy Share Image
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We have rejected the position of dependence which our createdness inevitably involves, and made a bid for independence. Worse still, we have… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I don't want to get into predicting how Judge Gorsuch would vote on the Supreme Court as a Justice Gorsuch. But I… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I… — Randy Forbes Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are… — Omali Yeshitela Copy Share Image
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From the Green Mountain boys who joined the fight for independence; to a war that saved the Union, and two wars that… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
“This “freedom” put a proud people in chains And turned free men into slaves “Independence” made us weak And slaughtered us In… — Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef Copy Share Image
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called… — Eli Wallach Copy Share Image
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image