Quotes About Independence

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

I like being able to be a man.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Slowly you become your own man.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.