Quotes About Independence

I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it.

There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

If ever Confederation fails, it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.

We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Canadian nationalism was systematically encouraged and exploited by American capital. Canada moved from colony to nation to colony.

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.