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" People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. "

Katharine Anthony

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" The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country. "

" A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia. "

Mercy Otis Warren

" 'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France. "

" What you get free costs too much. "

" We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence. "

" The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that. "

Carles Puigdemont

" Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century. "

" We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence. "

Hjalmar Branting

" I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge. "

" I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence. "

Nguyen Tan Dung

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

Dorothy Corkille Briggs

" Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners! "

Deborah Sampson

" If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound. "

Mohamed El-Erian

" For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy. "

Bernhard von Bulow

" The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. "

Marshall McLuhan

" 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. "

" All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests. I can't do anything that requires the BBC to pay certain people certain amounts. "

" 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

" Who can forget the awesome scene in 'Independence Day' when the White House gets blown up by aliens? Sure, it looks cheesy now, but back in 1994, it was incredible. "

Phoebe Robinson

" I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again. "

" Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want. "

" The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. "

George Richards Minot

" All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination. "

Carles Puigdemont

" The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people's expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of 'coming of age,' many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses. "

" The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. "

Caroline Kennedy

" A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. "

Joseph Lancaster

" We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government. "

Carles Puigdemont

" Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. "

Gerald F. Lieberman

" Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. "

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill