Quotes About Independence

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

That government is best which governs least.

for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The union of America is the foundation-stone of her independence; the rock on which it is built; and is something so sacred in her constitution, that we ought to watch every word we speak, and every thought we think, that we injure it not, even by mistake.

Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal

Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.

Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.

Mind thine own concerns.

It is the violence which is done and threatened to our persons; the destruction of our property by an armed force; the invasion of our country by fire and sword, which conscientiously qualifies the use of arms: And the instant, in which such a mode of defence became necessary, all subjection to Britain ought to have ceased; and the independancy of America, should have been considered, as dating its era from, and published by, THE FIRST MUSKET THAT WAS FIRED AGAINST HER.

All their wishes centred in one, which was, that the country would turn out and help them to drive the enemy back.

As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.

is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the event of a few months.

Thomas Paine

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?

It is against the whole hell of Monarchy that I have declared war.

Propria mea minte este biserica mea.