#independence

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. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#called #did #films #free #good

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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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. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

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After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#east #embraced #enduring #expect #independence

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. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. ↗

— David Wooster

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