Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, America Quotes, Independence Quotes

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

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I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

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Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

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The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

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Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

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Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

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There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

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Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

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He only is rich who owns the day.

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The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

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Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.

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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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