c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.
— Kim Jong-un
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.
— John C. Calhoun
As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
— Kathleen Troia McFarland
If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence.
— Joseph Pulitzer
At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
— Sal Albanese
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
— Richard Lugar
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.
— Jeremy Hunt
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
— Samuel Dash
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
Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.
— Kim Jong-un
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
— Jose Rizal
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
— Dan Rather
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
— Julian Assange
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
— Pam Dawber
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
— Lionel Trilling
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
— Stephen Breyer
Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
— Hedy Lamarr
India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
— William Lloyd Garrison
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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
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
New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
— Marsha Blackburn
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.
— Edmund Morgan
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
— Tony Snow
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
— Bob Ney
From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.
— Robert Kennedy
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
— Fidel Castro
The world is independent of my will.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
— Paul Gillmor
It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
— Jose Rizal
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
— Kim Il-sung
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
— Tom Allen
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
— Gerry Adams
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
— Karen Salmansohn
I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision. 
— Petina Gappah
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
— James Madison
Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
— Anna Quindlen
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
— Marianne Moore
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
— William J. H. Boetcker
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.
— Malcolm Turnbull
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
— Candice Bergen
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
— Hun Sen
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
— Said Musa
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
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
— Ron Lewis
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
— Virgil Goode
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
— Lajos Kossuth
The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.
— Dorothy Corkille Briggs
In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
— Andrew Jackson
I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.
— Anna Eshoo
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
— Cokie Roberts
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
— David Cameron
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
— Damian Marley
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.
— Mark Zupan
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
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
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
— Natalie Massenet
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
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
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.
— John Trudell
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
— Saul Alinsky
The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.
— Boris Johnson
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.
— Helmut Schmidt
Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.
— Cory Gardner
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
— William Godwin
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
I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
— Emmanuel Macron
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?
— John Tyler
Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
— Pat Buchanan
The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.
— Frank Church
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
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
— Norman Finkelstein
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
— Dean Devlin
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
— Rand Paul
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
— David Souter
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.
— Vladimir Putin
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
— Pete Hamill
I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Lisa Murkowski
My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. 
— Iman
As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
— Dan Lipinski
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.
— Bassem Youssef
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
— Nandan Nilekani
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
I don't have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It's what's most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.
— Giorgio Armani
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
— Noam Chomsky
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.
— Rush Limbaugh
Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
— Marianne Williamson
What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'
— Michelle Obama
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
— Rand Paul
Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.
— Elliott Abrams
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent.
— Vladimir Putin
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
— Will Rogers
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
The Fed's independence is critical.
— Ben Bernanke
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
I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.
— Nicola Sturgeon
I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.
— Nicola Sturgeon
I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.
— Nicola Sturgeon
I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.
— Alanis Morissette
The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
— Robert Kennedy
A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.
— Robert Kennedy
To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence.
— William Godwin
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
— William Godwin
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
— William Godwin
I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.
— Ariel Sharon
I am convinced that the Obama administration and Clinton Dynasty would rather hail the Communist Manifesto than the Declaration of Independence this Fourth of July. And there's more than enough proof to show how they have been slow-cooking our Founders' republic into a red-star state like China.
— Chuck Norris
I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
— Felicity Jones
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
— Felicity Jones
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
— Mitch McConnell
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.
— Robin Wright
I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
— Salma Hayek
The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.
— Kim Jong-un
It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
— Tavi Gevinson
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
— Alan Dershowitz
The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.
— Alan Dershowitz
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
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
— Rick Perry
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
— Juliana Hatfield
For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.
— Solange Knowles
It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
— Olivia Wilde
Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.
— Robert Zubrin
I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.
— Jessica Williams
There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.
— Travis Kalanick
I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties.
— Michele Bachmann
For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I don't live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics'.
— Diana Gabaldon
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
It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.
— Thom Tillis
Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
— Narendra Modi
While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.
— Murray Rothbard
For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
— Mariella Frostrup
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
— Mike Huckabee
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
— Deborah Tannen
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.
— Kris Kristofferson
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.
— Hugo Chavez
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
— Parker Posey
I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
— Kevin McCarthy
Energy independence is very important to me.
— Tomi Lahren
Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.
— Steve Erickson
The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.
— Andrew Cuomo
An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
— Sam Brownback
I'm pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I've earned the right to be critical.
— Stone Cold Steve Austin
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
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.
— Alek Wek
We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
— Viktor Orban
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
It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
— Ted Deutch
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
— Marvin Ammori
India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don't think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.
— Ryan Zinke
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
— Evel Knievel
The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
— Jay Parini
The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.
— John Dickerson
Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.
— Cory Gardner
I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers. 
— John C. Calhoun
After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.
— Shiv Nadar
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
— Pankaj Mishra
Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
— Pat Robertson
The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.
— Ehud Barak
I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
— Maika Monroe
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
— Martha Stewart
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
— William Hague
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
I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.
— Allison Williams
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized.
— Arlen Specter
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
— Octavio Paz
The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.
— Jon Oringer
This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.
— Lupe Fiasco
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
— Jack Kevorkian
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.
— Diane Kruger
Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.
— Rita Rudner
My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
— Marlee Matlin
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
— Ahmed Zewail
Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.
— Patrick deWitt
Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.
— Sayed Kashua
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
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
— Lena Headey
'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.
— Claire Denis
Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.
— Rebecca Traister
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
— Jim DeMint
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
— Jidenna
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
— Allen West
My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.
— Marquis de Lafayette
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.
— Richard Attenborough
The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
— Herman Cain
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.
— Herman Cain
I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.
— Herman Cain
Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
— Dane Cook
I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.
— Glenn Beck
First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.
— Rose Leslie
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
— Isabella Bird
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
Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
— Mel Gibson
I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
— Raf Simons
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
— Li Keqiang
What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.
— Brooke Shields
Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.
— Rory Bremner
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
— Rory Bremner
Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.
— Rex Tillerson
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
— Tariq Ali
Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
— Tariq Ali
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
— Tariq Ali
It's always Canelo, and it's Mexican Independence Day, so I know that. But I am the champion, and just looking back on that, that is one reason why I hope they'll respect that I'm champion and be fair.
— Liam Smith
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.
— Gary Bauer
Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
— Gary Bauer
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
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
Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
— Jane Campion
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
— Cyndi Lauper
The BBC is a victim of its own independence.
— Graham Norton
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
— Edmund Morgan
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
— Edmund Morgan
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.
— Chiang Kai-shek
As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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
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
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.
— Sue Townsend
While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.
— Ronald Kessler
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
— Daniel Webster
In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
— Don DeLillo
Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
— Rachel Bloom