Quotes About Independence

You will never become financially independent without purchasing investments that appreciate without income realization.

What if your goal is to become financially independent? Your plan should be to sacrifice high consumption today for financial independence tomorrow. Every dollar you earn to spend is first discounted by the tax man.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

The only security of all is in a free press.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

A little rebellion is good now and then.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. -Thomas Jefferson

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.