Quotes about Independence

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.