If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title hands-down.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions I beg you.

When I work I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.

It is not wealth one asks for but just enough to preserve one's dignity to work unhampered to be generous frank and independent.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

In our modern world of interdependent nations hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession a war of independence no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

We are at war and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts whether committed by foe or friend.

In war when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance he no longer deserves victory.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone and the truth of those not to be depended on.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me and that I can depend on in return.

With fame you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us helpless like children a trust that is put upon us.

I get to travel see the world meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.