Independence Movement Leader

Famous quotes containing the words independence, movement and/or leader:

“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play is on the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)