Quotes About Independence

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.

Is it the Fourth?

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what never will be.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I am not a Federalist because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever....Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Those willing to accept the tranquility of servitude, had best be prepared to crouch to his knee's, and lick the hand that feeds him.

we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This

El árbol de la libertad debe ser vigorizado de vez en cuando con la sangre de patriotas y tiranos: es su fertilizante natural»

all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.

I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance....The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism.

Liberty is the parent of science and of virtue, and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.

He was simply not a "hero", which is to say, he did not let his relationship with the man be determined by the woman.