Quotes About Independence

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

The precondition to freedom is security.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

How naive she must be to think that life is so safe and predictable that you can survive without some level of independence and autonomy.

I think some people just can't handle people who go about their life genuinely not caring about what other people think.

Not at all. I mean, yeah, you're weird by teenage standards. But weird in a good way. I mean, it's your life, your liver, your brain cells. It's weird not to respect choice. Whether you're choosing to get pissed or go sober, or get high on weed or chocolate, everybody's gotta make their own choices.

HAVING ONE'S OWN shop, working on projects of one's own choosing, making enough money today so one could do the same tomorrow: These were the modest goals of Thomas Edison when he struck out on his own as full-time inventor and manufacturer. The grand goal was nothing other than enjoying the autonomy of entrepreneur and forestalling a return to the servitude of employee.

One hundred fifty years before, one hundred fifty miles to the west, slaves in Haiti had won their freedom by defeating the sixty-thousand-man army of Napoleon Bonaparte. This, never told to class.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

As I see it, a parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help them develop a personal set of tools for the task. So my dreams for my kids are very exact: I want them to find their own path to fulfillment. And given that I won't be there, I want to make this clear: Kids, don't try to figure out what I wanted you to become. I want you to become what you want to become. Having

Don't Obsess Over What People Think

I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

When you go into the wilderness, the only thing you can count on is what you take with you.

Going to school on the Planet really is doing nothing. You just sit in the classes someone else tells you to sit in. You learn things you didn't choose to learn from people you didn't choose to teach you. Then one day they tell you it's over and you have to go out there and learn the world for real.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and so what you thought was right.

The story of America's quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.

The federal government, in its own way, had cut off his balls. It had symbolically lynched Jack Johnson.

Work hard, pay your own way, and you'll never owe anyone anything but kindness.

I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson