Independence

"From my invaded nation,/the battlefield today is independence."

"I, who have the strength and awareness to be my own motive force, will not be the little cog that is overwhelmed, annihilated by the heavy social gears."

"At the heart of the Right to Repair movement is human agency — the agency to use your property as you see fit; the agency for small businesses and repair shops to compete with huge incumbents by providing better, cheaper services; and the agency for the next innovators of the world to tinker, free of constraints, as they develop the skills needed to realize the vision for that next great product."

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

"Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price."

"It is a great folly to lose the inner man in order to gain the outer, that is, to give up the whole or the greater part of one’s quiet, leisure, and independence for splendour, rank, pomp, titles and honours."

"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all."

"All we ask is to be let alone."

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us."

"My anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong."

"Voyager upon life's sea:— To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe."

"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security."

"Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate."

"Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky."

"Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!"

"L'injustice à la fin produit l'indépendance."

"Independence now: and INDEPENDENCE FOREVER."