Independence Quotes

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

~ Deborah Tannen

I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

~ Angela Bowie

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

~ William J. Clinton

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

~ Will Durant

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

~ Walter Gilbert

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

~ Edmund Morgan

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

~ Ambrose Bierce

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

~ Arlen Specter

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich