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Independence Quotes

Independence Quotes

1. Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. - Stephen Covey

2. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. - B. R. Ambedkar

3. Injustice in the end produces independence. - Voltaire

4. There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. - Calvin Coolidge

5. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D. Rockefeller

6. 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. - Montesquieu

7. The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. - James Madison

8. 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. - Jane Campion

9. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

10. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford

11. Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. - Ho Chi Minh

12. Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. - Abraham Lincoln

13. The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. - Harry S Truman

14. The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations. - Sun Yat-sen

15. Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered. - Sudha Murty

16. Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. - Benjamin Disraeli

17. What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about. - Brooke Shields

18. I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me. - R. Madhavan

19. Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence. - Vladimir Putin

20. Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. - Boris Yeltsin

21. Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do. - Mel Gibson

22. Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. - Nelson Mandela

23. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.' - Michelle Obama

24. I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over. - Richard Attenborough

25. India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

26. Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up. - Akkineni Nagarjuna

27. The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country. - Kofi Annan

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