Quotes About Independence

I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way

for this continent would never suffer itself to be drained of inhabitants, to support the British arms in either Asia, Africa, or Europe.

It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.

The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth

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. Man has no property in man;

Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen; an open and resolute friend; and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND, and of the FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA.

I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion.

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. All

Put us, say some, on the footing we were on in sixty-three: To which I answer, the

Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of A GOOD CITIZEN, AN OPEN AND RESOLUTE FRIEND, AND A VIRTUOUS SUPPORTER OF THE RIGHTS OF MANKIND AND OF THE FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA.

Her mother had not told Jane that happiness was not something she had waited for, but something she had decided.

I meant you can pick." "If

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.

They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.

Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.

She seemed less my wife and more a woman in her own right, more self-reliant and independent. I felt I was looking at her in the round, so to speak, as one views a statue, from all sides, not merely a bas-relief with the figure partially imprisoned in the stone.

Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

The initial displacement of Palestinians came about as a result of the Israeli-Arab Wars of 1948. With the British withdrawal from the Palestine Mandate and U.N. resolution 181, the Israelis declared their independence. Immediately, the surrounding Arab nations swore to destroy the Zionist state. They rejected all attempts at mediation or offers by Israel to negotiate. Instead, they went to war—and lost.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.