#dependence

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#duty #independent-thought #independence

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#independence #partisanship #politics #radicalism #iraq

I am living breathing freedom ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#free #free-spirit #freedom #independence #life

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#also #cost #duty #fearful #german

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#exercise #freedom #government #great #independence

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. ↗

— John Thune

#dakota #dependence #energy #energy security #ethanol

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ↗

— Will Durant

#declaration #independence #make #nature #never

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#always #american #be different #declaration #different

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#country #discussion #freedom #i #independence