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Independence Quotes

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

Happiness Independence Country Right

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.

Life Happiness Independence Search

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

God Faith Believe Independence Moral

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

Day Independence Important Defend

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

Maurice Saatchi

World Independence Strike True Way

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Ideas Revolution Independence Radical

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

Juliana Hatfield

Independence Stand Individuality Only

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

People Independence You Distance Big

We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

Carles Puigdemont

People Independence Choose Serious

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

Leader History Men Independence Said

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Mercy Otis Warren

Seeds Independence Wealth Train Kind

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Abraham Lincoln

Men Man Independence You Stop Know

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

World Start Energy Independence Down

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

Happy Independence America Will Era

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.

Winning Independence Congress Years

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British.

Ideas Democracy Independence End Out

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Law Independence Facts You Decide

We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.

Day Ride Independence Thought Logic

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

George Woodcock

Creative Independence Search You Out

As a teenager, I had a weakness for freedom fighters. When Mugabe came to London to negotiate independence, I vanished from home to stand outside his hotel. I was very disappointed that he looked like a dorky teacher.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Home Freedom Teacher Independence

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

Life Work Progress Me Independence

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Independence Done Favorite Much Ever

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

Bird I Am Me Free Independence Will

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mother Me Independence Lady Person

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