My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India's independence,… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
“When you streamline your schedule by making deliberate decisions about tasks and activities that are crucially important you and identify your most… — Julie Connor Copy Share Image
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“The weight of youth is light, yes, but life generally grows heavier into adulthood. This, embedded as deep as the most human… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
For those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on.… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad,… — Nandan Nilekani Copy Share Image
In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
By sabotaging the FTC's independence, Trump is trying to ensure this agency works only for his interests, not those of the small… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
America in the 1800s isn't quite the historical mystery hotbed as the same period in the country it bested in the War… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image