Independence Quotes

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Strong, Character

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

Freedom, True, Job

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

Money, Hope, Experience

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II

Life, Family, Great

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Happy, Girl, Living

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

Soul, Another, Earth

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Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge

Important, Living, Means

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

Political, Vote, Franchise

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney

End, Means, Symbol

Injustice in the end produces independence.
Voltaire

End, Injustice, Produces

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

Greatest, Children, Give

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

Hope, Freedom, Means

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen

Alone, Others, Rather

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington

Education, Religion, Politics

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Freedom, Mind, Real

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

Mad, High, Degree

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

Beauty, Themselves, Actions

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Political, Miracle, Race

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
Ibrahim Rugova

Fact, Recognized, Kosovo

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

Away, Show, Stage

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
James H. Douglas

Family, Good, Health

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
John Avlon

Politics, Reason, Rather

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
Gerald F. Lieberman

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

America, Again, Holiday

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S. Truman

Freedom, Possible, United

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

Nature, God, Government

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill

Society, Mind, Others

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

Freedom, True, Exist

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