Quotes About Independence

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.