Quotes About Independence

Todavía doy importancia a mi libertad, o al menos a ese resto de libertad y dignidad humana que aún conservamos.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

As a child, and since then too, I have always tended to resist any kind of a possessive affection on the part of any other human being—there has always been this profound instinct to keep clear, to keep free. And only with truly supernatural people have I ever felt really at my ease, really at peace.

I think that if there is one truth that people need to learn, in the world, especially today, it is this: the intellect is only theoretically independent of desire and appetite in ordinary, actual practice.

And everything seemed to conspire to encourage me to cut myself off from everybody else and go my own way.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good .

My own mind is my own church.

All variables are independent.

You're chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

Never know when a gal might need a laser.

But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty.

a pocket full of spare change and anger unlimited, what more does a 30-year-old innocent need to make his way in the city?

Fuck you," whispers Slothrop. It's the only spell he knows, and a pretty good all-purpose one at that.

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.

A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.

The difference is that one system involves each individual making choices for himself or herself, while the other system involves a small number of people making choices for millions of others.

It is easy to give up freedom and hard to get it back.

Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson's mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: Always settle them cases yourself.

Eventually, this black leadership pressured and negotiated independence for Nigeria, beginning in 1960.