Quotes About Independence

Noble as the ideas of the Declaration of Independence were, it was obvious before the ink was dry that they clashed with a central fact of everyday life in America: slavery.

A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If

Too many people, possibly even the majority of them, were all too content to let others do that thinking and analysis for them.

The universe doesn't make a doggone thing happen. You make things happen for yourself.

Do not live bowing down. Die standing up.

I think it's great that you think about…your mother, quincies, the future, all kinds of things before you act. I respect that about you. But…I'm not like you. For me, 'taking care of myself' means doing what I can, when I can.

Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.

It was good to be alone. Really alone, without other people around you to let you imagine that your life had mingled with theirs. But that never was true. Even together, people were as solitary as cows in a field chewing their own cud.

But if they could live without each other, and do better without each other, then this could not be true and must never have been true. They did not need each other. There was no particular reason for them to be together. Then what was it all about? They were dragging each other down like two people who couldn't swim. If they were lucky, they might keep at it long enough to grow old in the same house.

He argued that a woman should have equal rights in family property and should be educated, especially in matters of law and finance: "it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection."27 Most important, though, Fukuzawa encouraged an independent spirit.

walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.

Jack Ryan said, "Benjamin Franklin put it like this: 'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

No, those few men and women who went against the establishment from time to time, only when necessary, were what ultimately made America great.

Don't bother setting up free republics or moving to a country which offers more liberties. Simply declare yourself to be an independent state. Do not involve and coerce others. This is the only way we will effect a proper revolution. Once each of us recognizes our own freedom and our own responsibility, then the chains that bind us will fall away.

take responsibility for our lives and recognize that we choose how we react to situations and that we can choose to be free if we so wish.

Paul reached out his hand to help Sophie to her feet; she ignored him (she didn't hold with patronising gender-stereotypical conventions) and wobbled for a moment before her legs remembered how to cope with her weight.

Doesn't settle for less than she deserves, or apologize unless it's absolutely necessary.

As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o'clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by.

Wherever he was, he was onto something else, growing up without her, leaving her more alone than she already was.

thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn't help reminding her of everything that had gone wrong, and what a fool she'd been.