Independence Quotes

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

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

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

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.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

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.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Independence is happiness.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence.

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

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.