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“Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.”
Candice Bergen
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
Denis Waitley
“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
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions.”
George Carlin
“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
Louis K. Anspacher
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force”
Voltaire
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
Charles Darwin
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“Injustice in the end produces independence.”