Quotes About Independence

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.