Independence Quotes - Page 16

• If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.'

  Sarah Palin

  Team, Sake, Energy

  "Sarah Palin’s Safari Club Speech: ‘We Eat Organic — We Just Have To Shoot It First’" by Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Let's just change the flag and keep everything as it was.' Then there are the revolutionaries who say, 'Let's change the property laws.' It's always a critical moment.

  Ken Loach

  Law, Flags, Agendas

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• God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sweet, Long, Suffering

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

  Saul Alinsky

  Religious, Political, Too Much

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• I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Compromise

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• The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Ghana, Liberation, African Continent

  Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart

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• The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.

  Karl Popper

  Free Opinion, Challenges, Intellectual

  "On Freedom (All Life is Problem Solving)". Essay by Karl Popper, translated by Patrick Camiller, 1994.

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• The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Rights, People, United States

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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  I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Motherhood, Support

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2003). “Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

  John Brown

  War, Self, United States

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234

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• You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Choices, Foundation

  "PBS' Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.keyesarchives.com. December 20, 1999.

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• If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Abortion

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• The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.

  Alan Keyes

  Biblical, Rights, Creator God

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• Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

  Kenneth Grahame

  Animal, Limits, Fool

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.125

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• Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Intelligent, Self

  "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Keith Hess, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.

  Edward Mazria

  Running, Recovery, Energy

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• The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

  David McIntosh

  Prayer, Humorous, Government

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• I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

  Gerry Schwartz

  Inspirational, Wind, Water

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• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Mind, Definitions

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• True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

  Nicholas Lore

  Mean, Being Free, Behavior

  Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

  Herbert Croly

  Political, Mind, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Differences, Being Free, Needs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable. They still sound reasonable, in large part, because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Twenties, Sound

  "Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, May 1991.

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• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

  Marianne Moore

  Impatience, Bondage, Mark

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Independent, Self

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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