Quotes About Independence

An ordinary Haitian mule, it was said, would serve you faithfully for ten years just for the chance to kick your brains in

Sometimes, when nobody is by your side, you have to become your own cheering squad.

By living on our own terms. By being rats, not mice, work together and beat the system. I will not give up my friends for this system. In fact, my friendships will beat the system.

Why do we need our men to praise and validate us in order for us to feel accomplished?

They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

The first trait is servility. At school, our education system hammers out our individual voices and kills our natural creativity, turning us into servile, course-material slaves. Our

26 January is a happy day for all Indians. Whether or not you feel patriotic, it is a guaranteed holiday in the first month of the year.

High-class people have this concept called space, which means you cannot ask them questions or give them opinions about certain aspects of their life.

What's the point of getting people free only to put restrictions on them?

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

I'm not anti-social. I'm pro-solitude.

There is no success but your own success.

That teacher is most successful who makes herself progressively unnecessary to her pupils because she develops in them the power to do without her.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can get rid of him on weekends.

A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.

Had Stephen been better acquainted with men and women, she would have been more satisfied with herself for being the first at the tryst. The conventional idea, in the minds of most women and of all men, is that a woman should never be the first. But real women, those in whom the heart beats strong, and whose blood can leap, know better. These are the commanders of men. In them sex calls to sex, all unconsciously at first; and men answer to their call, as they to men's.

Capricorn: "If you don't like me, that's your problem not mine."

The Fourth of July, when we get to play our favorite American guessing game — fireworks or gunshots?

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. All the rest began, they know not when, and grew into power, they know not how.... There is no "Republican," no "Democrat," on the Fourth of July, — all are Americans.