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Independence Quotes
"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
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"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."
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"Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable."
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"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
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"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
"Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence."
"I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security."
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
"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."
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
"Never let a day be your control factor."
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
"The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion."
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net."
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
"A desire and a goal not to be subservient to another or to be in charge of one's life is a good thing to do."
"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
"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."
"I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
"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."
"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
"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."
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."
"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence."
"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way."
"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."
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
"I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching."
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