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" 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. "
Elton Gallegly
Law
Achieving
People
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" Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia. "
Boris Yeltsin
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You
" Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. "
Robert Toombs
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" I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff. "
Liz Phair
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" In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence. "
Carl Spitteler
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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
" I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them. "
Benjamin F. Wade
World
Regret
Men
" It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence. "
Jeff Zucker
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Things
Respect
" But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. "
Omar Bongo
Africa
Peace
Independence
" In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. "
Henry Van Dyke
Progress
Independence
Personality
" The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. "
William Godwin
Most
Security
Independence
" Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. "
Maya Angelou
Youth
Wine
Independence
" Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. "
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
End
He
" Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. "
Nicolas Chamfort
She
Nature
Rich
" Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence. "
Paul Robeson
People
India
Independence
" I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan. "
Fred Thompson
Small
Independence
Think
" There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. "
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Independence
Inverse
Relationship
" The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. "
John Piper
Dangerous
World
Sin
" The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity. "
Eavan Boland
Political
Independence
Time
" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Thought
Rise
Sacred
" The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward. "
Francis Parkman
California
Point
Independence
" We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow. "
Marine Le Pen
Independence
Liberty
Values
" It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Enough
Independence
Just
" International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence. "
Norman Finkelstein
Law
Independence
Fighting
" I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport. "
Frank Deford
Independence
Think
Bad
" At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing. "
John Sarbanes
Do The Right Thing
Time
Money
" The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. "
William Godwin
Dislike
Virtues
Love
" 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
Women
Independence
Men
" I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through. "
Helen Thomas
" If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me. "
Pedro Almodovar
Freedom
Money
Me
" What you get free costs too much. "
Jean Anouilh
You
Costs
Independence