Independence Quotes

1048 Independence quotes by 732 unique authors

What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly… — Eugen Richter
An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must all hang together, or assuredly,… — John F. Kerry
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be shed, just like… — Nien Cheng
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a… — Michael Mullen
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy… — Barack Obama
We are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but today this is… — Bruno Kreisky
What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned… — Adolf Hitler
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the… — George Washington
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent… — John Longenecker
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every… — Abraham Lincoln
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. — Thomas Jefferson
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence,… — Albert Einstein
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,… — James Madison
But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we… — George Washington
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… — George Washington
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto… — John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our… — Ronald Reagan

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