Quotes About Independence

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

I never met a man I could marry.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.

No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.