Independence Quotes

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

A strong body makes the mind strong, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

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

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence

She was a strong and smart woman and could repair even a leaking sink and a broken TV. Doing everything on her own, still she always let him pull down her zipper…