Quotes About Independence

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.

No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself, and a crank as one who having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

Of course, he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend; I am not thine.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.