Quotes About Independence

He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.

This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land

I'll wave no more flags for home. No tears for Mother. Nobody ever died for apple pie.

In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.

Can you really show me a single person, including yourself, including me, who, since the Vanishing, can't be said to belong to a cult? Even if it's a cult of one?

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

We should tend our freedom wisely.

No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.

I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.

I have a mind that belongs wholly to itself, and is accustomed to go its own way. Having never until this hour had a master or governor imposed on me, I have advanced as far as I pleased, and at my own pace. This has made me slack and unfit for the service of others; it has made me useless to any but myself.

I have my own laws and my own court to judge me, and I refer to these rather than elsewhere.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

ÇizilmiÅŸ bir yolda yürümek ve yaln?z kendi hayat?ndan sorumlu olmak ruh için büyük bir rahatl?kt?r.

Needs could not bully her.

if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.

away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing

I don't want a man to validate me or take care of me. If I have a man in my life, I want him to enhance me.

Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.

Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

The wind got inside her and urged her to be free, just as it was, blowing wherever and however it willed.

Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a prime number nor a composite number. It is the first two numbers of the Fibonacci sequence. It is the empty product. Any number raised to the zero power is one. It might be argued that one is the most independent number known to man. It can do things no other number is capable of.

Contrary to popular wisdom, you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Whether you acknowledge it or not, you had help.