Quotes about Independence

“A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.”

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

“I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.”

“I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.”

“Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.”

“There's very little proof that Obama or anyone in his administration - particularly Hillary Clinton - truly understands or believes the tenets in the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. If they did, they would know that they are running a federal government in direct contradiction to both of those sacred documents.”

“To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.”

“I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.”

“The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.”

“I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.”

“Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?”

“Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.”

“Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.”

“Everyone from Silesians to Sicilians to Scots seems to want autonomy or independence. The British voted to leave the European Union, and hostility to the superstate is rising across the continent.”

“Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.”

“In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?”

“The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.”

“He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.”

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”

“Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.”

“I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.”