Defence Quote by Chaim Weizmann

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death!

— Sukarno

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.

— Anonymous

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in…

— P. T. Barnum

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

— Y. C. James Yen

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

— Stephen Breyer

Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that…

— Mahathir Mohamad

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never granted; it is won.

— A. Philip Randolph

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

— Aslan Maskhadov

“Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.”

— Vikrmn