Top 452 Independence Quotes

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

Edmund Morgan

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

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

Jack Kevorkian

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James A. Baldwin

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Mercy Otis Warren

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

Chiang Kai-shek

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.

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

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Nandan Nilekani

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

Tariq Ali

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller

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