Quotes About Independence

Buffet: A French word that means "get up and get it yourself."

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself- and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

We are the people our parents warned us about.

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said,"I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

Include me out.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.