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“There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica”
John Stuart Mill
“In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.”
Henry Van Dyke
“And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.”
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Lee Greenwood
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.”
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“There are four types of persons, the ‘dead’, who deny the Lord and declare that they alone exist, independent and self-directed, the ‘sick’, who call upon the Lord when some calamity befalls them or when they feel temporarily deserted by the unusual source of succor, the ‘dull’, who know that God is the eternal companion and watchman, but who remember it only off and on when the idea is potent and powerful, and lastly the ‘healthy’, who have steady belief in the Lord and who live in His Comforting Creative Presence always”.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”
Norma Shearer
“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.”
Ho Chi Minh
“Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.”
Gerard Way
