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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to… — Aldous Huxley
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. — Thomas Jefferson
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there… — C.S. Lewis
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary… — James Madison
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can… — James Madison
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep… — George Washington
My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon… — George Washington
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… — Alexander Hamilton
I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters… — Calvin Coolidge
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will… — James Madison
What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the… — Wayne Dyer
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair… — Havelock Ellis
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at… — Thomas Jefferson
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a… — Alexander Hamilton
My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has… — Thomas Jefferson
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be… — Alexander Hamilton
After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling… — Unknown Author
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape… — Louis Thomas McFadden
Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal.… — Charles Baudelaire
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a… — Albert Einstein
No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]. — Albert Einstein
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even… — Albert Einstein
That first apartment was a big step. It has a lot to do with being independent. — Irene Cara
Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding....being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of my book, Vagabonding,… — Rolf Potts

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