Quotes About Independence

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. The economic imperialism of a single tiny island kingdom (England) is today keeping the world in chains. If an entire nation of 300 millions took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Let's live with that small pittance that we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

The day is past when women want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. They like to get out and do things.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

Franklin smiled benevolently at the questioner, and quickly, blandly, he replied, "My friend, the Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself!"

...you sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

He had learned to get along without her. Her meaning was forgotten. There was no place for her in his scheme of things, as there was no place for him in hers.

Si je n'aime pas une chose, je ne l'aime pas, voilà tout ; et rien au monde ne me fera l'aimer, parce que la grande majorité de mes contemporains l'aime, ou fait semblant de l'aimer. Mes goûts et mes aversions ne suivent pas la mode.

What we wanted to do we went and did, on our legs upstanding, and we faced all reproof and censure on our legs upstanding, and did not hide behind the skirts of classical economists and bourgeois philosophers, nor behind the skirts of subsidized preachers, professors, and editors.

One rifle, one blanket, twenty bottles of hooch. Rifle broke. She said this last scornfully, as though disgusted at how low her maiden-value had been rated.

The old-timer had been very serious in laying down the law that no man must travel alone in the Klondike after fifty below. Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were rather womanish, some of them, he thought. All a man had to do was to keep his head, and he was all right. Any man who was a man could travel alone.

a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.

nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.

non bisogna essere schiavi che della bellezza. La serva e mandi al diavolo la folla imbecille. Il successo!

And so with that girl. You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like - like yours, for example.

Though alone, he was not lost. 

Ben yine de kendi hazlar?m?, insanoÄŸlunun ittifakla verdiÄŸi hükümlerden önemsiz görmeyeceÄŸim. EÄŸer bir ÅŸeyi sevmediysem sevmedim demektir, o kadar. Åžu güneÅŸin alt?ndaki hiçbir sebep sadece türdeÅŸlerim çoÄŸunluk olarak onu beÄŸeniyor diye o beÄŸeniyi benim de taklit etmemi gerektirme. HoÅŸland???m ya da hoÅŸlanmad???m ÅŸeylerde moday? takip edecek deÄŸilim.

Ben yine de kendi hazlar?m?, insanoÄŸlunun ittifakla verdiÄŸi hükümlerden önemsiz görmeyeceÄŸim. EÄŸer bir ÅŸeyi sevmediysem sevmedim demektir, o kadar. Åžu güneÅŸin alt?ndaki hiçbir sebep sadece türdeÅŸlerim çoÄŸunluk olarak onu beÄŸeniyor diye o beÄŸeniyi benim de taklit etmemi gerektirmez. HoÅŸland???m ya da hoÅŸlanmad???m ÅŸeylerde moday? takip edecek deÄŸilim.

Tahitians, knew that it was madness to go on alone.  So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet