Mitch McConnell Quotes

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

I have my own strength.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Free men are the strongest men.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever! Independence now and forever! Independence forever!

I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for …, to wit a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.

Our ancestors have always regarded independence as fundamental to the concept of a nation.

You want independence. Go ahead. You are not worth Russian blood or money.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: Independence or Death!

Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them..

I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.

Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.