"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
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"How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done."
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"Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence."
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"Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence."
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"Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul."
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"Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government."
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"Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket."
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"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security."
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"Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended"
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"Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion."
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"For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care."
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"Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence."
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"Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted."
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"If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence."
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"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
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"Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach."
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"Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth."
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"It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength."
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"He who is served is limited in his independence."
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"Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner."
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