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"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
"By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me."
"Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever."
"[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity."
"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
"The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence"
"There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules."
"Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence."
"All good things are wild and free."
"Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong."
"Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here."
"When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence."
"If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile."
"Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence."
"It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"
"Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence."
"I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels..."
"I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway."
