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" In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. "

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" I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. "

" The world is independent of my will. "

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" We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy. "

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" The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. "

" Journalists prize independence - not teamwork. "

" First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence. "

" I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse. "

" Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. "

Victoria Woodhull

" I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better. "

" Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage. "

" I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage. "

" I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington. "

" I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

" Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.' "

" I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. "

Jackie Robinson

" The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. "

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" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "

" I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. "

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" Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. "

" I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. "

" With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium. "

" I'm proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that's always been a main agenda for me - to make my own position, don't try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else. "

" It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence. "

" What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. "

" The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself. "

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" I discovered my path to independence through technology as well as the potential for a global lifeline for trans people around the world who were looking for the same. "

" A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. "