Independence Quotes

144. 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.

^{Kuno Becker}

145. Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico’s Independence Day.

^{Joe Baca}

146. In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

^{Raul Castro}

147. I don’t have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

^{Cyndi Lauper}

148. I believe in being a happy conservative: that you’re happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.

^{Kevin McCarthy}

149. To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

^{Joe Mansueto}

150. There’s value in checks and balances. And there’s value in having independence in the governor’s office with respect to the legislature.

^{Charlie Baker}

151. Independence is fun, especially when there’s a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

^{Deborah Moggach}

152. We must first and foremost defend Hungary’s independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

^{Viktor Orban}

153. The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

^{Walter Gilbert}

154. Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you’ve reached.

^{Kenneth Grahame}

155. The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

^{Carles Puigdemont}

156. 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.

^{Maya Hawke}

157. Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

^{Fidel Castro}

158. We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

^{Henry Lawson}

159. 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.

^{Azita Ghanizada}

160. Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He’s a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

^{Nicolas Maduro}

161. Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

^{Bassem Youssef}

162. Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

^{Victoria Woodhull}

163. Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

^{Caitlin Flanagan}

164. America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

^{Maurice Saatchi}

165. For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let’s reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

^{John Garamendi}

166. Fox was interested in a different title to ‘Independence Day.’

^{Bill Pullman}

167. By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

^{Mercy Otis Warren}

168. I’m completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

^{Dane Cook}

169. 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.

^{Richard Shelby}

170. Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

^{Tariq Ali}

171. We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.

^{Hjalmar Branting}

172. It’s important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

^{Tamara Mellon}

173. I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

^{Raf Simons}

174. They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.

^{Diana Ross}

175. 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.

^{Ho Chi Minh}

176. I believe the absolute majority of Hongkongers have never felt that Hong Kong independence is a viable option.

^{Carrie Lam}

177. To know how far I’ve come as a person and an entertainer and a businesswoman, I just hope I represent independence and intelligence and athleticism – everything that a woman should want to be.

^{Charlotte Flair}

178. I’ve always been hopeful about Scotland’s prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

^{Sean Connery}

179. ‘The White Woman on the Green Bicycle’ is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.

^{Monique Roffey}

180. Talk radio can’t work unless you have the kind of independence you get by being part of an independent news network. You can’t be beholden to an agenda, and that’s what I like about Fox: It doesn’t have one.

^{Alan Colmes}

181. The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

^{Ali Khamenei}

182. Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.

^{Akkineni Nagarjuna}

183. Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

^{Yolanda Hadid}

184. Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It’s an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.

^{Carles Puigdemont}

185. My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

^{Marquis de Lafayette}

186. Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn’t want to do it.

^{Ian Smith}

187. My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That’s how we were raised.

^{Robin Wright}

188. To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn’t permit a middle road.

^Sukarno

189. As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

^{Bennett Miller}

190. 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.

^{Jose Rizal}

191. British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for independence.

^{Michael Portillo}

192. John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It’s been playing there for 25 years.

^{Eli Wallach}

193. I don’t like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that’s the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.

^{Nathan Blecharczyk}

194. The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

^{Kofi Annan}

195. Diana, whatever her failings, was not into making money, or as Harry and Meghan put it, financial independence.

^{Lady Colin Campbell}

196. Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it’s another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

^{Carla Bruni}

197. Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

^{Katharine Graham}