Quotes about Independence
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
— James K. Polk
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
— Lucille Ball
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
— Ronald Reagan
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
— Heath Ledger
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sanitation is more important than Independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi