Quotes About Independence

No man is free who cannot control himself.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.