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" The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. "

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" The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. "

Henry Cabot Lodge

" The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. "

" President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways. "

Corey Lewandowski

" 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. "

" Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. "

Wynton Marsalis

" Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. "

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

Michelle Williams

" I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence. "

Juliana Hatfield

" Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him. "

" In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector. "

Alexander Dubcek

" I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things. "

Claire McCaskill

" A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct. "

" How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration. "

" I think boarding school does give you an independence. "

" Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. "

James H. Douglas, Jr.

" A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. "

" Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. "

" By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers. "

Mercy Otis Warren

" Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence. "

" Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief. "

" Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint. "

" Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man. "

" What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us? "

" In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on. "

" Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. "

David Ben-Gurion

" Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution. "

" Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. "

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