It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn’t want to do it.
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches – legislative, executive and judicial – and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.
On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
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.
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
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.
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.
