Independence Quotes

248. 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.

^{Michael Portillo}

249. Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

^{Treat Williams}

250. The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

^{Ariel Sharon}

251. In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‘the loss of China’ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

^{Noam Chomsky}

252. After all these years of Independence, after celebrating this special occasion for all these years, why there’s no drinking water that’s free of cost? Why we have to buy packaged mineral water?

^{Saswata Chatterjee}

253. I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.

^{Emmanuel Macron}

254. There’s a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.

^{Iliza Shlesinger}

255. The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

^{Dorothy Corkille Briggs}

256. The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.

^{Roger Scruton}

257. Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

^{Narendra Modi}

^{Octavio Paz}

258. What are we fighting the terrorists for if we ourselves do not even stand up for democracy – civil liberties and fundamental rights – which includes independence of the judiciary?

^{Nawaz Sharif}

259. I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

^{Fred Thompson}

260. For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

^{Noam Chomsky}

261. The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.

^{Blase J. Cupich}

262. Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

^{James H. Douglas, Jr.}

263. Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

^{Aslan Maskhadov}

264. Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

^{Hun Sen}

265. We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally’s strategic independence from Europe.

^{Richard Perle}

266. I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

^{Thomas Erskine}

267. People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

^{Katharine Anthony}

268. The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

^{George Richards Minot}

269. While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

^{Eliot Engel}

270. Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

^{Cole Younger}

271. They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

^{Cole Younger}

272. The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King’s College, London.

^{James Black}

273. I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

^{Susie Bright}

274. I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

^{George Woodcock}

275. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War – when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

^{Sarah Vowell}

276. Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

^{Jim Gerlach}

277. The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

^{Francis Parker Yockey}

278. The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

^{Jay Inslee}

279. In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can’t fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

^{Bob Schaffer}

280. 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.

^{Mercy Otis Warren}

281. A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

^{Ferdinand Mount}

282. As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country’s energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

^{Dan Lipinski}

283. In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.

^{Allyson Schwartz}

284. Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

^{Herbert Croly}

285. 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.

^{Pete McCloskey}

286. To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

^{Edwidge Danticat}

287. The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

^{Emma Bonino}

288. 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.

^{Lajos Kossuth}

289. The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

^{Lajos Kossuth}

290. I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

^{Moshe Sharett}

291. But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

^{Henryk Sienkiewicz}

292. 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.

^{Mahmoud Abbas}

293. It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

^{Mitch McConnell}

294. Journalists prize independence – not teamwork.

^{Ken Auletta}

295. I think it’s a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that’s a march to folly.

^{Anna Eshoo}

296. The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

^{Valerie Jarrett}

297. The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

^{Herman Cain}