Quotes About Independence

Belle turned around. She looked down at her hands, hardened with work. They might have been city hands once, but they weren't anymore, and they never would be again, no matter how much cream she slathered on them. She'd made a place for herself.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Nearly everybody yields up his conscience, his practical judgment, into the keeping of others.

The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

I may stand alone, But would not change my free thoughts for a throne.

As the Liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood So we, boys, we Will die fighting, or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

No one has a right to tell you what you want, what you need, or what you must have. So why let them?

Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.

I get too hungry for dinner at eight.I like the theater, but never come late.I never bother with people I hate.That's why the lady is a tramp.

People misunderstand power. Real power is being at peace with oneself and living in the moment—not being affected by the currents and actions of others.

nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, it also holds true that nothing is more terrifying than to be divested of a crutch.

Well, yeah, you do have to do some things alone. You come into this life alone, and you go out alone. At the end of the day, it's just you.

I don't have to work. I could buy your fucking penthouse twice over myself with my trust fund.

Not goddamn dead yet. Like I told you, the day I need someone to brush my teeth, wipe my ass, put me to bed in diapers, is the day I stop living.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

There is no animal more invincible than a woman

I don't want a husband." "Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.

Miss, I'm sure lots of women think of running away when men disappoint us. But if all of us was to actually do that, there wouldn't be a woman left in London.

I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.