Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Let's just change the flag and keep everything as it was. ' Then there are the revolutionaries who say, 'Let's change the property laws. ' It's always a critical moment.
Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn
There are a number of Americans who've been taught that, that the Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The Declaration of Independence has nothing to do with it. It's the Statue of Liberty. And there is complete and total ignorance about it. And I maintain it's because they have not been taught the truth. And even if they have been taught the truth, they have rejected it in favor of what their political biases happen to be as their political biases relate to their narrative and the agenda.
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words "All Men" exclude a vast number of citizens.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended
All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.