Independence Quotes - page 2

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)
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. View quote
Phyllis Diller
My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground. View quote
Valerie Trierweiler
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. View quote
Denis Waitley
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything. View quote
George Weinberg
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. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. View quote
Bob Ney
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties. View quote
Doc Hastings
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence. View quote
Dan Lipinski
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history. View quote
Paul Gillmor
Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want. (Stephen Breyer)
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. View quote
Tom Allen
It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along. View quote
Germaine Greer
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. View quote
Candice Bergen
I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for. View quote
Robert Mugabe
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood.... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. View quote
Robert Mugabe
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.' View quote
Antonin Scalia
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says. View quote
Bill Clinton
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. View quote
Harry S. Truman
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, of the independence of the United States: a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind. View quote
John Adams
[I]f ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. (Thomas Jefferson)
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville