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Independence Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
- Nov 07, 2020
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Independence is happiness.
- Constitutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
- Manly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.
- Clause
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
- Autonomy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
- Fugitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
- Energy Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
- Freedom From
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- Nov 07, 2020
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drone attacks are against the national sovereignty and a challenge for the country's autonomy and independence. Therefore, we won't tolerate these attacks in our territorial jurisdictions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making it ripe for independence.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
- Cemented
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
- Beautiful Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.
- Enshrined
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
States that have experienced revolutions or have acquired their independence from empires - such as the U.S. or Australia - tend to celebrate their constitutional documents and put them on show in special galleries so that every citizen can become familiar with them. In the U.K., this is not properly done.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
- Defend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.
- Dangerous Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020