Quotes About Independence

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

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

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.