Quotes About Independence

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Dare to think for yourself.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

We would drive to Canada, where it would probably be legal for us to get married- it was Canada where they let people do whatever they wanted because it was too cold to bother stopping them.

What happened to the Ford?" "God, Gloria made me sell it. Supposedly, I had too much independence—that's the new theory, that I ran off because of independence. Also, she wants me to see a shrink. She's convinced that anyone who wouldn't want to live with her has to be crazy.

Somehow I knew that puppies were meant to leave their mothers.

Let me drive. You wait until I get up to fifty-five miles per hour, and then jump out,

A company should never outsource its eyes. There is simply no substitute for seeing for yourself. Great artists don't paint from other people's descriptions or even from photographs; they like to see the subject for themselves. The same is true for great strategists.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

I think that a fierce woman's better, a woman That breaks away when you have thought her won, For I'd be fed and hungry at one time.

triple solitude of age, eccentricity, and deafness

Go your ways, O go your ways I choose another mark, Girls down on the seashore Who understand the dark

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.