Independence Quotes - Page 24

• No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Freedom, Humanity, Behaviour

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• To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Frustrated, Relief

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

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• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, Recovery, New Job

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• If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Freedom, America, Liberty

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mom, Dad, Kids

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• The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you
  to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The
  principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

  Frederick Douglass

  Gratitude, 4th Of July, Pride

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

  Friedrich Engels

  Law, Giving, Doe

  "Anti-Dühring". Book by Frederick Engels, Part I, Chapter XI: "Morality and Law", www.marxists.org. 1877.

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• It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

  Robert Greene

  People, Fool, Maintaining

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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• But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

  Martin Buber

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

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• The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

  Robert Graves

  Taken, Granted

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

  Graham Norton

  Victim

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• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  Raf Simons

  People, Brands, Knows

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• Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

  Bill Milkowski

  Smooth Jazz, Iron, Fists

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• My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

  Victor Ponta

  Government, Judiciary

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• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessed, Practice, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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• History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.

  Norman Chad

  War, America, Rights

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• 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.

  Doc Hastings

  Two, Liberty, Generations

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• No one can be free unless he is independent...
  In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Independent, Reality

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

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Nations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

  Dido Armstrong

  Dad, Giving, Imagination

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• Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Father, War

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• The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

  John Keegan

  War, Struggle, World

  John Keegan (2012). “A History of Warfare”, p.886, Vintage

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Thinking, Intelligent

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• We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Blessing, Together, Groups

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