The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.
What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.
As India will complete 75 years of Independence in the year 2022, let's work towards Surajya & a nation where every section of society is developed.
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.
There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.
Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
The cost of independence has dropped.
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
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.
Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
The BBC is a victim of its own independence.