Quotes about Independence
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
- Toni Morrison
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
- Millard Fillmore
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
- William Wallace
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
- Ronald Reagan
America is best described by one word, freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
- Aldous Huxley
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
- Calvin Coolidge
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
- Paulo Coelho
America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
- John Quincy Adams