The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.
Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time become familiar and agreeable: and until an independence is declared, the Continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism
Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.
Don't always come when you're called.
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.
When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.
Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.