Astonishing Quote by Thomas Paine

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of…

— Cory Booker

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and…

— Jeremy Bentham

“There can be no independence without a large share of self-dependance, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.”

— Frederick Douglass

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means…

— Hannah Arendt

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes…

— James Q. Wilson

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

— Karren Brady

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must…

— Aleister Crowley

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Sukarno

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