Quotes About Independence

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.