Quotes About Self-sufficiency

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.

Not only am I knowledgeable and have a good friend base who can pitch in when I need them, and daughters, but I can afford to pay the people.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

I run with a credit card and a cell phone, so when there is not a 7-Eleven around, like some of the country roads out there, I can get him to deliver a pizza to me. And I kind of give them a coordinate, a corner.

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

Not married, not planning to also.

We never complained, 'We don't have this or that.' Even though we had to plant certain things and harvest them to be able to eat, we never complained.

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I'm not out to please everyone.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus.