Quotes About Independence

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

None but blockheads copy each other.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.

I wanna be free. Free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint my toes all day.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't.

None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform.

Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion.

My job is to make you think what you think is your businessRjS

Don't be a slave to society!