Quotes About Independence

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

Our forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their best and take responsibility for their own lives. They came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as they were told.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

No pida a su hijo que diga en voz alta las respuestas. Permítale siempre elegir entre dos respuestas posibles.

This solitude that you can acquire and should cultivate, this opportunity for contemplation of which you should take advantage, will be useful to you only insofar as you can substitute for those questions posed by the student for the teacher, questions posed by yourself for yourself. - Advice to a Graduation

We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from the judgmental eyes of others. Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Above even our physical well-being, a central value is keeping the state out of the private realm—our "persons, houses, papers, and effects," as the Fourth Amendment puts it. We do so precisely because that realm is the crucible of so many of the attributes typically associated with the quality of life—creativity, exploration, intimacy.

Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of the Internet is snuffed out,

The journey toward developing healthy self-esteem, starts with the recognition that people are born with unconditional human worth that is independent of the way people treat us.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.