Quotes About Independence

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Individuality is freedom lived.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.