Independence Quotes

38. It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

^{William Cobbett}

39. A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

^{Dan Rather}

40. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.

^{William J. H. Boetcker}

41. 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.

^{Mahalia Jackson}

42. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

^{Martha Stewart}

43. Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

^{Davy Crockett}

44. The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

^{Henry Cabot Lodge}

45. The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

^{Emma Goldman}

46. True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

^{Corliss Lamont}

47. 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.

^{Ellen Glasgow}

48. I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

^{Walter Annenberg}

49. The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

^{Carl Bernstein}

50. One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

^{Albert II of Belgium}

51. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

^{Robert M. Pirsig}

52. Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

^{Nicolas Chamfort}

53. Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

^{Allen West}

54. 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.

^{Paul Ryan}

55. In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

^{Doc Hastings}

56. Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

^{Stephen Breyer}

57. Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

^{Wynton Marsalis}

58. Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

^{William Hague}

59. 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.

^{Paul Gillmor}

60. 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}

61. I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice.

^{Jack Kevorkian}

62. I think there’s great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

^{Thomas Frank}

63. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

^{Denis Waitley}

64. Solitude is independence.

^{Hermann Hesse}

65. 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}

66. 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}

67. Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

^{Ho Chi Minh}

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

^{Marshall McLuhan}

69. The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

^{Walt Whitman}

70. I don’t have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It’s what’s most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.

^{Giorgio Armani}

71. The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.

^{John Adams}

72. Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

^{Sudha Murty}

73. 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.

^{Muhammad Ali Jinnah}

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

^{John Marshall}

75. Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

^{Will Durant}

76. If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

^{Tony Snow}

77. The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They are the very cornerstone of our freedoms.

^{David Lidington}

78. Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

^{Said Musa}

79. In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

^{Henry Van Dyke}

80. Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

^{Thomas Jefferson}

81. It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

^{James Monroe}

82. Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

^{Tom Allen}

^{Charles A. Beard}

83. Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

84. There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

^{Will Rogers}

85. Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.

^{Prashant Bhushan}

86. Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

^{Nelson Mandela}

87. Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

^{Robert Casey}

88. In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

^{Howard Zinn}