Quotes About Independence

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

A strongest man is the loneliest one

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

I don't care how far we've come with "women's liberation," with all these things. In a man's mind, he still needs to be the support of his family. He needs to hold up the world.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Necessitous men are not free men.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.