Independence Quotes

1048 Independence quotes by 732 unique authors

We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use… — Edward Mazria
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment;… — Jim Rohn
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal
Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of… — Noel Coward
But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply… — Sean Connery
One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of… — Swami Vivekananda
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence… — Calvin Coolidge
Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law… — R.J. Rushdoony
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. — Oswald Chambers
This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His… — Jerry Bridges
Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence. — Kay Warren
Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources. — Jim Rohn
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler,… — Benjamin Franklin
To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at… — Albert Einstein
Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled.… — Mahatma Gandhi
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That… — Barbara Tuchman
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where… — Heber J. Grant
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the… — Samuel Adams
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our… — John Stark
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for… — James Madison
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our… — Abraham Lincoln
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,… — Calvin Coolidge
So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is… — Randy Forbes

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