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" Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. "

B. Carroll Reece

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" The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations. "

" I was born with a fierce need for independence. "

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" In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.' "

" The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie. "

Carles Puigdemont

" In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges. "

" The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other. "

John Quincy Adams

" Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty. "

" I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. "

" I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman. "

Diane von Furstenberg

" The BBC is a victim of its own independence. "

" A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. "

Ferdinand Mount

" My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. "

Charlize Theron

" Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence. "

" Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. "

" Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. "

" Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education. "

Katherine McNamara

" Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved. "

" The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "

" I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties. "

Michele Bachmann

" The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens. "

Colson Whitehead

" The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. "

" The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.' "

" The election of Obama will say as much about the American people as it does about Obama himself - that our Declaration of Independence means what it says in its opening lines, that being the world's greatest nation means that we offer the world's greatest opportunities. "

" Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power. "

" I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough. "

" The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. "

" In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature. "

" The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion. "

Dorothy Corkille Briggs