Quotes About Self-sufficiency

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for you. And around it our own town... Freemanville!

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.

Standing alone doesn't mean I am alone. It's mean's I'm strong enough to handle things all by myself.....

Do as much as you can on your own. You can't delegate your destination.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

Intelligent people tend to care less about the opinions of others, they also enjoy being alone because of great sense of self.

You have to make decisions for yourself before you can make decisions with someone.

Enjoy the Bliss of just Being. Without being dependent on anything!