Quotes About Independence

I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.

We will live in independence because we will live within our income.

What a sad misfortune is to have body in one place and soul in another...I love to feel free...

America will not wear chains while her daughters are virtuous, but corrupt their morals by a general depravity, believe me sir a state or nation is undone. Was not Adam safe while Eve was innocent?

My ability to heal cannot depend on anyone's choices but my own.

The…destructive…message is that the parents don't trust their children to do what they are supposed to do whether it be learning to fall asleep on their own, figuring out how to safely climb a tree, or remembering to do the homework assignment. This message is especially harmful. Children cannot believe in themselves if the most important people in their lives don't believe in them.

I acknowledge that I can control only myself. I can't control how another person acts or reacts.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.6

And their representatives at Philadelphia, who first declared Independence, were, in the eye of the constitutional law of that day, simply a committee of Revolutionists, and in no sense constitutional authorities, or the representatives of constitutional authorities.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

I am not in the mood to have my underwear examined.

Freedom is just another word for being alone

The best protection any woman can have Ã¢â'¬Â¦ courage. —ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

I've just always viewed marriage as a job, and it's not the job I want for myself in the foreseeable

That's the one thing that came out of the war—women proved how much they were capable of tackling.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom.