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Independence Quotes
"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."
73
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
72
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
63
"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."
60
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
57
"Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable."
49
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
35
"Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you."
28
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
24
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
24
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
24
"Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam."
21
"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
19
"Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe."
18
"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
18
"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
17
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
17
"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
17
"You'll never have to fend for yourself like that, Lincoln. You never have to be alone. Why would you want to?"He leaned back against his bedroom wall and slunk down until he was sitting on the cast-iron radiator. "I just...," he said. "Just?""I need to live my life.""You aren't living your own life now?" she asked. "I certainly never tell you what to do.""No, I know, it's just...""Just?""It doesn't feel like I'm living my own life.""What?""It feels like, as long as I stay home, I'm still living your life. like I'm still a kid.""That's silly," she said."Maybe," he said."
17
"So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent."
16
"I cannot be bound to the confines of your rules. I am the exception to them."
16
"I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching."
16
"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
15
"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
15
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
14
"Cat doesn't have to work. She's a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she'd accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and Poppy clearly needed her, and no one seemed inclined to question her lack of experience."Of course not, Leo said acidly. "My family would never bother with something so insignificant as job experience. I'm sure they started the interview by asking what her favorite color was."
14
"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
13
"I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent."
13
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
12
"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."
12
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
12
"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."
12
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
12
"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
12
"Don't run with the crowd, fly with the stars."
12
"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
11
"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
11
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
11
"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
11
"The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward."
11
"We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways."
11
"Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!"
11
"Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence."
11
"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."
10
"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."
10
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
10
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
10
"The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction."
10
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