Quotes About Independence

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Great men can't be ruled.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Every man for himself.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.