Quotes About Independence

I've tried love," Louis said, as if it were a kind of soft, malodorous French cheese. "It's okay, but the problem with it is the other person involved. She has a mind of her own. You can't say the same thing about things.

After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence. Ten

What do those who struggle against power do when they seize power? What does the revolutionary do when the revolution triumphs? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others? And is it sane or insane to believe, as so many around us apparently do, in nothing?

When it came to learning the worst habits of our French masters and their American replacements, we quickly proved ourselves the best. We, too, could abuse grand ideals! Having liberated ourselves in the name of independence and freedom—I was so tired of saying these words!—we then deprived our defeated brethren of the same.

nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.

I want to travel anywhere I want, anytime I want. I want to come back here and know I can leave.

W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? What an audacious thought: that those who had been fated to labor without want, now wanted to labor in their own image!

I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.

each point in the universe must make up its own mind on the question of acknowledgement before acknowledgement can be considered universal.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Just be to yourself.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.

Always do your job without caring what others will think about it.

Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.

Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another.

Believe no man more than yourself when you are spoken of.

Define yourself. Never give anyone any chance to define you by their definitions.

Don't be an example in someone else's theory, write yours using your own examples.

Don't care about what people think about you. They don't put food on your table or pay your bills.

Don't worry about having no master, for time will teach you everything.

Give me some good advice and I promise you that I will not follow it.

He who knows how to beg can always leave his money at home.

He who works before dawn will soon be his own master.

Judge a man by his ability to ignore how other men judge him