Quotes about Independent
The objective of World Missions is to establish a healthy, reproducing, independent Baptist Church in every locale in the world.
— Anonymous
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
— Anonymous
until 1962, the year which turned out to be the big one for discounting. In that year, four companies that I know of started discount chains. S. S. Kresge, a big, 800-store variety chain, opened a discount store in Garden City, Michigan, and called it Kmart. F. W. Woolworth, the granddaddy of them all, started its Woolco chain. Dayton-Hudson out of Minneapolis opened its first Target store. And some independent down in Rogers, Arkansas, opened something called a Wal-Mart.
— Sam Walton
ABSTRICTED (ABSTRI'CTED) part. adj.[abstrictus, Lat.] Unbound.Dict.
— Samuel Johnson
And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, and dared to try what he was able to do.
— John Calvin
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
— Albert Einstein
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
— Albert Schweitzer
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national constitution.
— Alexander Hamilton
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all—and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.
— Richard Paul Evans
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
— Abraham Lincoln