Quotes About Independence

Then tell the Wind and Fire where to stop, but don't tell me.

So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat—he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat—and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall. 'I never wear gloves,' it was his custom to say. 'I didn't climb up the ladder in them.—Shouldn't be so high up, if I had.' Being

Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think — but you know best — that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think — but you know best — she was not worth gaining over.

I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket. "I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

But the root of all sin is self-sufficiency—independence from the rule of God. When we fail to wait prayerfully for God's guidance and strength, we are saying with our actions, if not with our words, that we do not need him. How much of our service is actually a "going it alone"?

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Everyone is a puppet, but there are no puppet-masters.

To be truly rich is to have sovereignty over our own time.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

Our future is entirely within our own control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.

Es por ello que como creyentes deberíamos continuar madurando a fin de que no necesitemos que nadie más nos enseñe. Si bien es cierto que Dios ha mandado pastores como predicadores, el crecimiento personal de nuestro ser espiritual debería ser nuestra prioridad.

No estamos todos de acuerdo en que hemos aprendido algunas cosas en la vida que ahora desearíamos nunca haber conocido? Hemos sufrido cosas que desearíamos no haber experimentado nunca. Allí está la sutileza. Cuando no escuchamos a Dios oímos otras voces cuya apelación es la de la independencia y el orgullo, y cuyo sistema de valores es la antítesis del de Dios.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

For however I may in former days as a young man have liked the notice which the being in a great man's train secures one, now that I have a fixed character of my own, obscurity is far the most agreeable.

The public corruption is the foundation on which corporations always depend for their political power. There is a natural tendency to coalition between them and the lowest strata of political intelligence and morality; for their agents must obey, not question. The lobby is their home, and the lobby thrives as political virtue decays. The ring is their symbol of power, and the ring is the natural enemy of political purity and independence.

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual's ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.

To live alone, one must be a beast or a god — says Aristotle — leaving out the third case: that one must be both — a philosopher.