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Quotes About Independence

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.
~ Howard Pyle
I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
~ Hugh Jackman
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.
~ Ilana Mercer
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.
~ Ilana Mercer
I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
~ Imogen Cunningham
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
~ Isabel Allende
I share no man's opinions; I have my own.
~ Ivan Turgenev
A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.
~ Jane Fonda
I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
~ Janet Fitch
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.
~ Jeb Bush
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
~ Jessica Valenti
Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card.
~ Jill Shalvis
A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.
~ Jo Ann Davis
I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
~ Joan Rivers
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
~ John F. Kennedy
Man is emphatically self-made.
~ John Henry Newman
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
~ John Heywood
No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.
~ John Lee Mahin