Declared Independence

Famous quotes containing the words declared and/or independence:

“Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are not good? Is there any necessity for a man’s being a tool to perform a deed of which his better nature disapproves?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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