Quotes About Independence

When the cat's away the mice will play.

I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

A committee of one gets things done.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Owe no man anything.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.