"In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."
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"The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history."
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"The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man."
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"The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self."
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"Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India."
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"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."
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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
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"The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive."
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"The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence"
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"Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching."
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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
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""We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition."
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"Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not."
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"There are worse places to be than on your own."
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"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
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"India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."
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"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it.""
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"Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence."
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