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Quotes About Independence

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
~ Sallust
[Donald Trump] is his own man - distinctly American. And where else would an independent spirit like his find a following than in the land of the free and the home of the brave?
~ Mike Pence
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
~ Desmond Tutu
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
~ Buffalo Bill
A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
~ Bruce Lee
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
~ Bernard Crick
Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.
~ Confucius
I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.
~ Cher
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself
~ Mae West
I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.
~ Caterina Sforza
The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
~ Barry Goldwater
You don't have a man, you need spaghetti.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.
~ Barnes Wallis
No man was ever great by imitation.
~ Samuel Johnson
No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
~ Herman Melville
There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.
~ Jeff Cooper
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."
~ Sean Price
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
~ John Quincy Adams