Quotes About Independence

But she was still a crowned queen in her own right.

To achieve a quick result, he found himself accepting terms that guaranteed Scotland's independence

shall continue to be called the kingdom of Scotland and retain its ancient laws and liberties.

Mary might return home as an independent queen.

and perfectly capable of bearing children if only she chose to marry.

Facts are in logical space and independent of one another and can only be stated or asserted.

Les autres [leaders de l'époque] suppliaient qu'on nous laisse entrer dans la maison de l'oppresseur, Malcolm [Malcolm X], lui, nous disait de construire notre propre maison

When you live in New York or any big city, it is easy to fail at growing up. The city is designed to keep you in a state of perpetual adolescence.

And then he could bring up the sail and let the prevailing winds carry him back to shore, thus making a living entirely on his own, almost without ever having to see or speak to another human ever in his life, which I am convinced is the secret dream of every person in Maine.

Single people who don't get pets in their twenties have to do other things to pretend they are grown-ups, like get married.

You may think it's enough to just read Val Kilmer's wine blog and drink whatever he recommends. And for the most part, you would be right. But sometimes Val Kilmer gets confused and drinks Thousand Island salad dressing, and so it's important to develop your own palate as well.

The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.

We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business.

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're not only free to practice the religion of our choice, we should be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here.

Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.