Quotes About Independence

Hemingway said, 'As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.'

As a rule, Heather didn't believe in pity parties.

If she's stupid enough to leave, then you have to be smart enough to let her go.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

I owe my solitude to other people.

If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Cyprus floats

Freedom lies at the heart of my willingness to lose everything

Soon I'll grow up, and I won't even flinch at your name.

Oh, hello, Mr. Man You didn't think I'd come back You didn't think I'd show up with my army And this ammunition on my back...I see right through you

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

There lives and there leaps in me A love of the lowly things of earth, And a passion to be free. To pitch my tent with no prosy plan, To range and to change at will, To mock at the mastership of man, To seek Adventure's thrill, Carefree to be, as a bird that sings, To go my own sweet way. Robert Service

I have never had personal debt and never will.

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

I see bundling as a really important step in the journey toward marriage becoming a marriage of personal choice, rather than something you're just forced into by your parents for economic reasons, because you don't have to marry the man or woman after the night of bundling.

Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay.

It's sad that in the struggle for my country's freedom, I have lost my personal freedom.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.