Quotes About Independence

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Never give up your power to another person.

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

No one can give us power. If we aren't part of the process of taking it, we won't be strong enough to use it.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.