It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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.
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice.
A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition – the divine right of kings.
Men spend their whole lives showing that they’re strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That’s set out in the Constitution.
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
