Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Solitude is independence.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Independence is happiness.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

Independence was something I really wanted from a young age and I think it really helped me make sense of myself, more so than perhaps say going to university would have done.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.