Independence Mission

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or mission:

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)