Quotes About Independence

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

In March, 1902, I resigned, determined never again to put myself under orders. The Detroit Automobile Company later became the Cadillac Company under the ownership of the Lelands, who

Let every American become steeled against coddling. Americans ought to resent coddling. It is a drug. Stand up and stand out; let weaklings take charity.

We speak of Liberty as one thing, and of virtue, wealth, knowledge, invention, national strength, and national independence as other things. But, of all these, Liberty is the source, the mother, the necessary condition.

I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.

The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

postcolonial" countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial

The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

We can make our own choices. We get to choose how we react to all that happens to us.