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Quotes About Independence

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
~ Henry Rollins
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
~ Henry Rollins
Disregard females, acquire currency
~ Henry Saunders
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
~ Henry Van Dyke
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
~ Henry Youngman
There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. —VISHNU PURANA,
~ Leo Tolstoy
We are conscious of the force of man's life, and we call it freedom
~ Leo Tolstoy
If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars," he said.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I can't live except by my own heart.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Go to the devil, I'm busy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am too proud to ever allow myself to care for a man who does not love me
~ Leo Tolstoy
Once there is no freedom, there is no man
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Be indifferent to other people's opinions about you. Without indifference, you cannot be a free man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,
~ Leo Tolstoy
A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy