Quotes About Independence

A society can never be free without women's liberation

Wild horses couldn't drag me away

Rather skin a carcass for pay in the public streets than be idly dependent on charity.

There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction.

Scotland resented the foreign domination of England.

their own and were obliged to live in various

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

We need not here repeat what was the character of the free and the servile proletariate of the capital. The significant saying was already heard, that only the poor man was qualified to represent the poor; the idea was thus suggested, that the mass of the poor might constitute itself an independent power as well as the oligarchy of the rich, and instead of allowing itself to be tyrannized over, might perhaps in its own turn play the tyrant.

Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, weder von der Macht der anderen, noch von der eigenen Ohnmacht sich dumm machen zu lassen.

No wonder men did not want women to wear bloomers. What could women accomplish if they did not have to continually mind their skirts, keep them from dragging in the mud or getting trampled on the steps of an omnibus? If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world!

If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world! And

With pockets, women could conquer the world!

At once more social and more self-reliant than their British counterparts, they were men whose dignity had not been destroyed by a culture of dependence.

self-respect can encourage people to make the best of a bad job, but dependency on the state has destroyed the basis of self-respect.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it.

At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.