Quotes About Independence

Well, the PFC is trying to cheat nature. It's time to stand up for ourselves. We … will … live!

Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of what they think I think they think I want to do.

I don't!" Minho shouted. "And believe me, you or nobody

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

Thousands of the Scotch-Irish began their New World careers as servants.

I don't think he ever gave a thought to other people's opinions, which was just as well because they were often unkind

When all t'world goes one road, I go t'other.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

In the car going home, I said, "We should have stayed." Bogie said, "No, we shouldn't. You must always remember we have a life of our own that has nothing to do with Frank. He chose to live the way he's living—alone. It's too bad if he's lonely, but that's his choice. We have our own road to travel, never forget that—we can't live his life.

The heroic efforts and successes of the Reformers on the Continent, in the presence of Papal bulls and inquisitions, were a trumpet call to independence to the people of this priest-cursed land; and many responded right nobly, ready to stand amid the faggots at the stake rather than bear the iron heel that bruised them.

The Virginians of the mountains, and of the broad valley of the Shenandoah River just beyond, were a different breed.

may have conquered Santa Anna," Nancy Lea was fond of telling him, "but you will never conquer me.

Especially appealing to the planter elite was the conservatism of the American Revolution. Indeed, according to their reading, it had been so conservative that it hardly deserved the title of revolution at all. The goal had been simple political independence, and the issue of home rule had not expanded to include the dangerous question of who should rule at home. The men who made the revolution had maintained control in victory.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

One needn't worry about turning heads if keeping one's own was a matter left unresolved.