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"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the declaration of independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh
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"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the declaration of independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Check out the declaration of independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." »Romain Cary
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"The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." »Albert Gallatin
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"Poverty without debt is independence." »Arabic Proverb
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"Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay)
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." »Henry Ford
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"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." »John Quincy Adams
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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." »Charles Austin Beard
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it." »Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
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"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish." »Pope John Paul II
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"If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning." »Carl R. Rogers
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"I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare." »Joyce Stranger
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"All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government." »Ellen Goodman
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"My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope." »Herbert Hoover
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"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness." »Aleister Crowley
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"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." »Thomas Jefferson
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