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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
“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
“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force”
Voltaire
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
Denis Waitley
“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
“Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes”
Mark Twain
“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
“Interdependency follows independence.”
Stephen R. Covey