Quotes about Independence

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”

“Nowadays, independence is so promoted, it would be crazy for me to say I'd want a traditional woman who wants to stay at home.”

“What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.”

“I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.”

“Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.”

“Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.”

“The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.”

“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.”

“When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.”

“Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.”

“I have, year after year, been named the most bipartisan member of the whole United States Senate. I have proved my independence.”

“Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.”

“Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.”

“I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.”

“Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.”

“The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.”

“It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.”

“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

“My family come from Cyprus. Both my father and my grandfather worked on the British bases there, and as the British government granted independence to Cyprus, they granted British passports to those who worked with them.”

“We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.”

“I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member.”