Quotes About Independence

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain similarities between him and me.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

The Jew bows before no man only God

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.