Quotes About Independence

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

in August 1777 that "no public or private injury or insult shall prevail on me to forsake the cause of my injured and oppressed country until I see peace and liberty restored or nobly die in the attempt."2

By 1778, British peace commissioners were offering to rectify all the American grievances of 1776, ignoring only the demand for independence.

against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail. General

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

we must take care to be "the user, but not the slave, of the gifts of Fortune.

Our goal should therefore be to become indifferent to other people's opinions of us. He adds that if we can succeed in doing this, we will improve the quality of our life.

Epictetus therefore advises us not to seek social status, since if we make it our goal to please others, we will no longer be free to please ourselves. We will, he says, have enslaved ourselves.

And why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the path they take through life determined by someone or something else, and as a result, there is a very real danger that they will mislive.

If you believe you cannot live without a certain person or that your entire existence depends on somebody else, you are setting yourself up to be hurt by that misbelief. If

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

Do whatever you can to restore people's sense of having some control over their situation.

Maybe it's that women can get along without men a damn sight better than men can get along without women. And the fact that they know it. That alone gives them a big edge. In endurance, in whatever you want to call it. They know they'll win out in the end.

Worse, Lee felt isolated. In Texas he skipped meals with others to avoid "uninteresting men," wishing he was back by his campfire on the plains eating his meals alone.211 He avoided sharing quarters and found that he "would infinitely prefer my tent to my-self."212 In a group he felt more alone than out on the prairie, and that "my pleasure is derived from my own thoughts.

These well-to-do were many of the same men who so enthusiastically supported secession at the outset—the ones who so confidently blustered that independence would be so quick and easy that they would eat all the flesh of those killed in any war, and drink all the blood spilled. Now in mid-1864 still "those that brought the war on is at home & our boys are fighting for there property

the splendid future of an Independent South." "Stimulate domestic manufacturing & local commerce," said Davis. Thus Charleston and New Orleans would vie with Boston and New York as commercial centers. Though Davis was only reiterating his oft-expressed wish for economic

Given time to attend to their own affairs in exchange for subsisting themselves, slaves gardened, tended to barnyard animals, and hunted and fished on their own. Occasionally, they manufactured small items and sold them to their owners, neighbors, or other slaves." Money was not the issue. The correlation to examine was between work and power.

He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle,