Independence Quotes

1048 Independence quotes by 732 unique authors

I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that… — Chogyam Trungpa
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of… — Larry Elder
The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is… — Jeff Koons
We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The… — Carl Pope
New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge… — Ryan Cayabyab
For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes… — Jay Rockefeller
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If… — Walter J. Phillips
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of… — Max Planck
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses,… — Theodore Roosevelt
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent… — Frank Church
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon… — Robert Toombs
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,. — Gary Player
Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own… — Friedrich August von Hayek
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an… — Henry Adams
The cost of independence has dropped. — Jeff Jarvis
The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like… — Hiroko Sakai
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its… — James Joll
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world… — Winston Churchill
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C.S. Lewis

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