Quotes About Independence

And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association.

I hate t see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

No hay nada como una mujer de cabeza fuerte para hacerte feliz de estar vivo.

10:05 p.m. I don't want your SYMPATHY your PITY your BAND-AID on my MISERY I don't want your WELFARE your I CARE your SHE'S-NOT-LOOKING-NOW-LET'S-STARE Just give me a CHANCE a FAIR FIGHTING CHANCE

There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.

The late distinguished sociologist Robert Nisbet, following Tocqueville, argued that when the forces of personal liberation are dominant in a culture, the result is not maximal liberty, but the absorption of liberty by government.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Life has taught me that one's most precious asset is the spirit of 'independence at all costs'... the constant disposition to risk all in the interests of a connection.

Unilateralism simply means that one does not allow oneself to be held hostage to the will of others.

It encourages and celebrates character, independence, energy, hard work as the foundations of a free society and a thriving economy—precisely the virtues Obama discounts and devalues in his accounting of the wealth of nations.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Don't be a leaf... Be a tree!

Well from now on, Linus think for yourself... Don't take any advice from anyone!

Prison is a frame of thought, we're all our own prisons, were each our own wardens and we do our own time. See prison in your mind, can't you see I'm free?

But there… that night… that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free.

If someone is bent on hurting herself, she'll find a way to do it. She was a grown woman; sooner or later, she was responsible for herself.

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.