Quotes about Independence
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
— Will Rogers
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
— Stephen Covey
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
— Thomas Paine
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
— Ellen Glasgow
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
— Henry David Thoreau
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
— Ronald Reagan
The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does
— Anonymous
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
— Toni Morrison
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey