In Independence We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created, by the, you know the, you know the thing. – Joe Biden Botching US Declaration of Independence quote.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. – Henry Cabot Lodge
At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. – Henning Mankell
I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country. – Herman Cain
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. – Howard Zinn
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes. – Gregg Harper
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. – Gavyn Davies
I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. – George Woodcock
If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground. – Herman Cain
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. – Harry S Truman
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. – Henry Lawson
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. – George Richards Minot
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded. – John Trudell
I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers. – John C. Calhoun
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn’t want to do it. – Ian Smith
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold. – Jose Rizal
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. – John D. Rockefeller
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. – John Piper
It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained. – James Monroe
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. – John Stuart Mill
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches – legislative, executive and judicial – and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. – J. Reuben Clark
I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized. – Ibrahim Rugova
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state. – Isaac Herzog
I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice. – Jack Kevorkian
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
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it. – John Adams
