Quotes About Independence

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master...

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.

I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

I exist as I am. That is enough

No tengo nada que ver con este sistema, ni siquiera lo necesario para oponerme a él.

not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel for yourself.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists.

If America is not for freedom I do not see what it is for.

Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints <...> and nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.

Creeds and schools in abeyance

For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;

To the States or any of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,/Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,/Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave, To meet life as a powerful conqueror... And nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.