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" I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office. "
Samuel Dash
Thought
Stand
Political
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" Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there. "
Nicola Sturgeon
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" They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there. "
Diana Ross
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Me
" 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
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" 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. "
Stephen Bannon
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" If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary. "
Dennis Chavez
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" Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. "
Mary Wollstonecraft
Live
Long
Life
" Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary. "
Thom Tillis
Act
Politicians
Judges
" The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. "
Carl Bernstein
Political
Ideas
American
" Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. "
Candice Bergen
Independence
Brick
Love
" The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. "
James W. Black
Me
Small
Opportunity
" We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. "
Robert M. Pirsig
Independence
Need
Integrity
" Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else. "
Sayed Kashua
Identity
Anything
Independence
" The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence. "
Meghan Daum
Famous
Long
Happiness
" At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. "
Henning Mankell
Run
Country
Try
" The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. "
Marshall McLuhan
Village
Independence
World
" It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. "
George Packer
Soviet
Europe
Going
" We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. "
Henry Lawson
Independence
Study
Individuality
" I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements. "
Kersti Kaljulaid
Freedom
Identity
War
" Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship. "
Deborah Moggach
Freedom
Waiting
You
" 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.' "
Ernest Cline
Independence
Nobody
Zombie
" In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence. "
Alexandra Fuller
War
Power
Mother
" Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent. "
Nicolas Maduro
American
Freedom
Independence
" George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers. "
Ringo Starr
Way
Know
Independence
" The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. "
Samuel P. Huntington
Just
White
Justify
" I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been. "
Ted Olson
Independence
Always
Diversity
" My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary. "
Victor Ponta
Respect
Government
Independence
" You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. "
William Hague
You
Outside
World
" We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny. "
Cory Booker
Destiny
Success
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" 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. "
Rod Lurie
World
Election
People
" The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats' selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security. "
David A. Clarke, Jr.
Men
Work
Government