“ If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist. Pierre Bourgault Politician
“ We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others. Pierre Bourgault Politician
“ Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency. Pierre Bourgault Politician
“ What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President
“ The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union. Alexander Hamilton Founding Father Of The United States
“ Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself. Alfie Kohn Author
“ Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. Aslan Maskhadov Political Leader
“ If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy. Barbara Amiel Journalist
“ "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition. Benjamin Franklin Founding Father Of The United States