Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

Independence is happiness.

All variables are independent.

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

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

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.”

“The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority .... Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.”

“The first duty of the sovereign [is] that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, [which] can be performed only by means of a military force”

“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.”

“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”

"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence"

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

"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."

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."