Independence Recognized

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or recognized:

“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)