Quotes About Independence

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

Though I am young, I scorn to flitOn the wings of borrowed wit.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

Il ne s'agit pas d'édifier à grand-peine des institutions libérales, il s'agit d'avoir encore des hommes libres à mettre dedans.

All the beatings she had suffered had not subjugated her, only taught her prudence and a calm and sly scorn for men's anger.

Il faut beaucoup de prodigues pour faire un peuple généreux, beaucoup d'indisciplinés pour faire un peuple libre, et beaucoup de jeunes fous pour faire un peuple héroïque

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

being alone is better

being alone is better than being with someone who is just filling space.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

To create one's own world takes courage.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do—isn't it enough just to express yourself.

I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

Secondo me, bisogna trovargli un nuovo istitutore», disse Larry. «Ti allontani da casa cinque minuti, e quando torni, lo trovi che sta sbudellando Moby Dick nel portico.»

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

I am my own damned princess!

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic.