Quotes about Independence
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
— Thomas Jefferson
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
— Winston Churchill
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
— Samuel Rutherford
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
— Khalil Gibran
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
— Ann Voskamp
Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
— Robert Frost
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
— Stephen Colbert
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
— Henry David Thoreau