Quotes About Independence

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

True affluence is not needing anything.

God same me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself, things like clean air, green grass, children with bright eyes, not being pushed around, useful work that suits one's abilities, plain tasty food, and occasional satisfying nookie.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

[My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter! - all his force dares not cross the threshhold of the ruined tenement!

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.