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"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the state he serves." »George Washington
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"The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide." »Ben Bova
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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state." »Joseph Goebbels
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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one." »Thomas Paine
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"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind." »George F. Gilder
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state What does it matter to me the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state "What does it matter to me?" the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility." »William Cobbett
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"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue." »Greek Proverb
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes." »Albert Einstein
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"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." »Charlotte Bronte
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"I can't see myself changing nappies and cooking dinner for too long. I'm too independent to live off a man's earnings." »Manisha Koirala
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"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe." »Albert Schweitzer
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"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." »John Swinton
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton
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"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it." »George Farquhar
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"We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God." »Edward Irving Koch
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"It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the state." »Roger B. Taney
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"Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people." »Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
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"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea." »Richard Hofstadter
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"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." »Paul E. Gray
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"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation." »Albert Einstein
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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