Quotes About Independence

If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.

Live like you want to, not how anyone else wants you to.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.

nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

The shot heard round the world.