independent quotes

He wanted to be independent of the vagaries of butlers.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Of  Winston Churchill, who liked to keep a champagne bottle next to his plate. Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known.

The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonisation byany European powers† In the wars of the Europeanpowers inmattersrelating to ourselves, we have never taken any part; nor does it comport with our policy to do so.

-John Quincy Adams
  The Monroe Doctrine, 2 Dec.

It does mean the end of Britain as an independent European state. It means the end of a thousand years of history.

- Hugh Gaitskell
  On Britain joining the European Community. Labour Party conference speech, Oct.

The escalator from the Social Predestination Room† One circuit of the cellar at ground level, one on the first gallery, half on the second, and on the two hundred and sixty-seventh morning, daylight in the Decanting Room. Independent existenceso called.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  Brave New World, ch.1.