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Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence. -- Mario Draghi
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. -- Doc Hastings
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. -- King Albert II
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. -- Seth Low
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. -- Louis D. Brandeis
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence. -- Petro Poroshenko
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence. -- Nathan Hale
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it. -- Will Rogers
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. -- Thomas Jefferson
When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence. -- Dalai Lama
We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers. -- Gerald R. Ford
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. -- Alexander Pope
I'm telling Palestinians, "Don't use violence." We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom. -- Saeb Erekat
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. -- Louis D. Brandeis
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. -- Thomas Jefferson
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics. -- Raul Castro
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence. -- John B. Hood
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence. -- John B. Hood
You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it. -- Scott Walker
I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year. -- Arin Paul
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood.... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. -- Robert Mugabe
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. -- Henry Lawson
I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home. -- Thomas Brodie-Sangster
The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people. -- Manmohan Singh
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. -- Jim DeMint
The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground. -- Subramanian Swamy
NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence. -- Vladimir Putin
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. -- Richard Perle
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. -- John Marshall
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. -- B. Carroll Reece
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. -- Aslan Maskhadov
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. -- Allen West
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. -- Richard Lugar
In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence. -- Cory Booker
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. -- Booker T. Washington
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. -- Paul Ryan
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached. -- Kenneth Grahame
As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells. -- Dan Lipinski
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government. -- Robert Toombs
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. -- Jay Inslee
For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy. -- Bernhard von Bulow
We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now -- Alex Salmond
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? -- Abraham Lincoln
The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence. -- Carl Pope
As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved. -- Gaston Miron
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living. -- Kay Arthur
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets. -- M. Scott Peck
Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence. -- George Pataki
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever. -- Alexander H. Stephens
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. -- Stephen Colbert
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves. -- Soseki Natsume
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence. -- Herman Melville
We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart. -- Gerald R. Ford
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached -- Kenneth Grahame
money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth. -- Olivia Mellan
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence. -- Thomas Paine
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies! -- Joseph Hopkinson
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. -- Tim Ryan
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas. -- John Cornyn
To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together. -- Indira Gandhi
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence. -- Dan Lipinski
For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence. -- John Garamendi
We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible. -- Bryant H. McGill
We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible. -- Bryant H. McGill

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