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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
— Carlos Fuentes
Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.
— Michael Arrington
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
— Matt LeBlanc
I think boarding school does give you an independence.
— Deirdre O'Kane
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
— Zoe Foster Blake
I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
— Michelle Williams
Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.
— Katharine Graham
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.
— Isaac Herzog
When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton's misconduct.
— Jeff Greenfield
From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.
— Rebecca Stead
Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.
— Richard Shelby
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
— John Cornyn
I do need my independence. I have to have that.
— Carol Vorderman
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
— Leland Stanford
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
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
— Robert M. Pirsig
There's no such thing as an independent person.
— Peter Jennings
Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
— Philip Kerr
I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
— Philip Kerr
I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?
— Elisabeth Shue
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
— Walter Annenberg
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
— George Weinberg
As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
— George Weinberg
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.
— Emilia Fox
The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats' selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security.
— David A. Clarke, Jr.
I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.
— Eli Wallach
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
— Jenny Shipley
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
— Joe Baca
It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.
— Catherine Tate
I'm for economic independence.
— Charles Evers
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.
— Stephen Hunter
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
— Doc Hastings
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.
— Doc Hastings
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
— Omar Bongo
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
— Jay Inslee
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
— Lajos Kossuth
For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.
— Monica Seles
I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.
— Mark Kirk
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
— Paul Gillmor
Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.
— Michael K. Simpson
The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
— Valerie Jarrett
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
— Victor Ponta
What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
— L. Neil Smith
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
— Fred Thompson
The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.
— Emma Bonino
In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
— Ken Salazar
Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.
— Michael Frome
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
— Dan Lipinski
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
— Jim Gerlach
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
— Rosa Luxemburg
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
— Daniel H. Pink
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.
— Michael McCaul
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.
— Michael McCaul
Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
— Katherine McNamara
I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.
— Chris Benz
I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.
— John Roberts
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
— Felix Adler
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
— Moshe Sharett
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
— Theodor Mommsen
It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
— Tamara Mellon
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
— Maurice Saatchi
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.
— Sarah Vowell
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
— Herbert Croly
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
— Herbert Croly
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
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
— Samuel P. Huntington
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
— Treat Williams
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
It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
— Maurice Saatchi
The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.
— Denis McDonough
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
— Paul Robeson
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
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
— Charles A. Beard
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
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.
— Susie Bright
Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
— Philip Hammond
Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.
— Stephen Breyer
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
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
— Richard Perle
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
— William J. H. Boetcker
Independence is a very subjective assessment.
— P. Chidambaram
In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.
— Allyson Schwartz
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.
— John Shimkus
I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
— Ted Olson
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
To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
— Edwidge Danticat
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
— Mahmoud Abbas
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
— Mahmoud Abbas
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
— Samuel West
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.
— John Zimmer
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.
— Eliot Engel
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
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
— Carla Bruni
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
— Nandan Nilekani
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.
— Ibrahim Rugova
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
— Ibrahim Rugova
Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.
— Judy Biggert
In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.
— Sheena Iyengar
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
— Ellen Glasgow
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
— Ferdinand Mount
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
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
— John Desmond Bernal
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
— Ferdinand Mount
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
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
In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
— Bob Schaffer
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
— Malcolm Wallop
Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.
— Keith O'Brien
When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.
— Cory Hardrict
I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
— Ingrid Bergman
The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.
— Milos Zeman
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
— Kenneth Grahame
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
Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.
— Eric Massa
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.
— Robert Zoellick
Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later about American energy independence, but the facts are, every barrel we produce helps Americans because it keeps prices down.
— John S. Watson
To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.
— Kevin Bleyer
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
I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.
— Dido Armstrong
I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
— Ted Ligety
I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
— Thomas Brodie-Sangster
We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
— Samora Machel
I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.
— Azita Ghanizada
Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'
— Dean Devlin
First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
— John Avlon
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.
— Arthur L. Herman
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
— Caitlin Flanagan
For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
— John Garamendi
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
— Gavyn Davies
We must develop energy independence we must Make It In America.
— John Garamendi
To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.
— Joe Mansueto
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
— Valerie Trierweiler
My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
— Valerie Trierweiler
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
— Mike Crapo
There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.
— Liz Williams
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
— Henry Lawson
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.
— Nicolas Maduro
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
— James W. Black
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
— Blanka Vlasic
At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
— Jakaya Kikwete
When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.
— Rowan Ricardo Phillips
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
— Samuel Dash
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
— Allen Weinstein
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
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
— Raul Castro
The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
— Ali Khamenei
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
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
— Bernhard von Bulow
6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
— Yitzhak Navon
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
— James H. Douglas, Jr.
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
— Norma Shearer
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
— Aslan Maskhadov
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
— Richard Grant
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
I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
— Joaquim Barbosa
Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.
— Mario Draghi
On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
— Seth Low
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
— Seth Low
I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.
— Suheir Hammad
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
— Dennis Chavez
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
— Pete McCloskey
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
— Katharine Anthony
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
— B. Carroll Reece
I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.
— Collin C. Peterson
I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
— Aleqa Hammond
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
— J. Reuben Clark
My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that.
— Don Ho
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.
— Jeff Minter
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.
— Kuno Becker
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
— Carl Spitteler
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.
— John B. Hood
Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.
— Shaukat Aziz
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
— Gregg Harper
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
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
— Thomas Erskine
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
— David Wooster
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
— George Richards Minot
NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.
— Slobodan Milosevic
Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.
— Cole Younger
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
— Cole Younger
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
— John Keats
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
— Bil Keane
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
— Rupert Brooke
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
— Willa Cather
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
— Thomas Moore
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
— Margaret Atwood
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
— W. H. Auden
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
— Ethel Merman
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
— Robert Browning
I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
— Robert Orben
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
— Thomas Hood
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
— George Edward Moore
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
— Clara Schumann
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.
— Cameron Diaz
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
— e. e. cummings
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
— Esai Morales
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
— Robert Herrick
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
— Frank Morgan
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
— Audre Lorde
I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
— Drew Barrymore
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
— Elizabeth Bowen
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
— Yoko Ono
Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.
— Christina Rossetti
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I like perfume and flowers.
— Donatella Versace
I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone.
— Susie Bright
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'
— Ginnifer Goodwin
Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
— Jay Leno
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
— Albert Einstein
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.
— Chantal Kreviazuk
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
— Martin Lawrence
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
— Michelle Obama
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
— Bruce Lee
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
— Queen Latifah
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
— William S. Burroughs
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
— Confucius
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
— Henry Ford
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.
— Amisha Patel
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
— Richard Branson
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
— Chuck Grassley
I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
— Kiri Te Kanawa
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
— William Pollard
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
— Warren Bennis
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying. 
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
— Jim Rohn
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
— Joyce Meyer
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
— Don Tapscott
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
Research is creating new knowledge.
— Neil Armstrong
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
— Michael Gove
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
— Bill Ackman
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.
— Pooja Hegde
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
— Darell Hammond
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
— William Arthur Ward
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
— Randi Weingarten
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
— Tony Robbins
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.
— Joel Edgerton
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
— George S. Patton
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
— William Pollard
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
— Christopher Morley
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
— Paul Prudhomme
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
— Benjamin Disraeli
People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.
— Lauren London
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
— Lillian Gish
No one ever said learning was to be easy, but it's part of the process of evolving as a human being, and we all have to go through it. When I look back, I see that each difficult time brought an important lesson. And I prefer to look at it with gratitude because I wouldn't be who I am today if I haven't gone through it all.
— Gisele Bundchen
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
— Thomas Jefferson
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
— Sai Baba
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
— Ken Robinson
In youth we learn in age we understand.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
— Paulo Coelho
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
— Will Smith