Eamon de Valera Quotes

We must creep before we can walk. Protect the manufacturers for the present, and in a little time, they will protect themselves and us. They have the potential of releasing us from our dependence on foreigners and quieting their intrigues.

If Pakistan is to play its proper role in the world to which its size, manpower and resources entitle it; it must develop industrial potential side by side with its agriculture and give its economy an industrial bias. By industrializing our State, we shall decrease our dependence on the outside world for necessities of life; we will give more employment to our people and will also increase the resources of the State.

I don't think we can be a great nation unless we can manufacture much of what we consume.

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

I'm for economic independence.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

We ought not to depend in the degree we have done on supplies from other countries

In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favorable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.

Designing our own agriculture policy will mean we can put behind us the quotas and regulations that have held back U.K. output during our years in the E.U.

Leaving the E.U. will enable the U.K. to undertake a major campaign for import substitution.

Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.

In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

We've supported the development of Cuba's private sector. This is a human rights issue - people should have the right to live with dignity and to control their livelihoods.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.