I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years,… — George W. Malone 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
What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to let people grown up on their own. Even if you know what's best for them. They will… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced,… — Catharine Beecher 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
Everyone wants that person to catch them when they fall instead of getting up by themselves and being a stronger person than… — Nichole Fickes Copy Share Image
The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether… — Olivia Holt Copy Share Image