Quotes About Independence

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo.

Never ask a man where he has been.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.