Quotes About Independence

You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.

Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.

He had given me something priceless: namely, his confidence. I am grateful I was forced to make my own way. His disappearance did put me in need and make my future uncertain, but it turns out need and uncertainty can be excellent teachers.

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

I follow only one party: the Vietnamese party

Mr. Schoenbrun, we have a secret weapon ... don't smile when I tell you this. Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world.

It may take three years, it may take five, it may take ten, but that will be the war of Indo-china.

We are convinced that the Allied nations which ... have acknowledged the principles of self-determination and equality of nations, will not refuse to acknowledge the independence of Vietnam.

Freedom for my people, independence for my country, this is all I want, all what I understand.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

No, I won't help you. No, I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word:  no . You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.

Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye

It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

As Val jumped down onto the litter-strewn concrete after them, she thought how insane it was to follow two people she didn't know into the bowels of the subway, but instead of being afraid, she felt glad. She would make all her own decisions now, even if they were ruinous ones. It was the same pleasurable feeling as tearing a piece of paper into tiny, tiny pieces.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

Remember, all you really get to control is yourself.

She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.

I might be only sticks and snow and hag magic, but at least I did not come from her. I am no one's child. That makes me smile, showing red teeth.

You think because you can humiliate me, you can control me?

At least no one is privy to my thoughts. Stupid as they are, they remain my own.

Can you save yourself?

Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.