Quotes About Independence

The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.

Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

We were created to be continually dependent on God, yet we often strive for our independence.

No One Needs You That Much

Op dat moment wist ik dat er voor echte vrijheid meer nodig is dan een officiele verklaring. Het gevoel van vrijheid moet daadwerkelijk in iemands ziel wortelen. Blijkbaar is het net zo zeer een geestelijke gesteldheid als een wet.

You think your parents are there just to love and irritate you. You see them as satellites spinning round your sun and you try to run away across the universe while they chase you.

The convention debated at length over how the members of the Supreme Court should be selected, eventually settling on nomination by the president and confirmation by the Senate. By providing that federal judges "shall hold their offices during good Behaviour," the delegates intended to protect judicial independence.

Between 1799 and 1810 the legislatures of New Jersey, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania passed statutes forbidding the state courts from citing any cases decided by English courts after July 4, 1776.

She didn't forgive him, not then. Not really until years later when she realized how men were so influenced by their peers and governments. This was something Ruth, a woman who could stand alone in the world, would never understand.

You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved.

Adolescents thrive on rituals that acknowledge their growing independence and passage into adulthood.

People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

I didn't really need a champion, though--a man who'd slay dragons on my behalf. If I ran into any dragon that needed slaying, I'd take care of it. Although, as a vet tech, I might instead choose to find the appropriate anti-anxiety med to calm the creature without permanently harming it.

I'm only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I'll be gone forever—- the way the door closes behind me with such solidity, the way my suitcase carries everything I'd need for an eternity of traveling light. I've left my hotel number on your desk, instructions about the dog and heating dinner. But like the weather front they warn is on its way with its switchblades of wind and ice, our lives have minds of their own.

Women," Nellie answered. "Women kicking butt all over the place.

We can't, little cricket. It is against the law to fly this flag - even to put up a picture of it. Korea is part of the Japanese Empire now. But someday this will be our own country once more. Your own country.

I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being." Depressing

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

and a new dress because her asshole husband had bought an ugly funeral outfit she was stuck in for eternity

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Shall we now give up the independence we have won, and crusade abroad in a utopian attempt to force our ideas on the rest of the world; or shall we use air power, and the other advances of modern warfare, to guard and strengthen the independence of our nation?