Quotes About Independence

Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy?" Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)

For Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and the other Rajput courts, this was also an age of empowerment and resurgence as they resumed their independence and, free from the tax burdens inherent in bowing to Mughal overlordship, began using their spare revenues to add opulent

One woman, however, was spared. Both Miran and his father asked for the hand of the famously beautiful Lutf un-Nissa. 'But she declined and sent this reply: "having ridden an elephant before, I cannot now agree to ride an ass."'87

Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who shall we follow next? Who shall we kill next time?

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

Cats are not sentimental and they never slobber.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

There is but one power to which I can yield a heart felt obedience, the decision of my own understanding, the dictate of my own conscience

Sucks to your ass-mar!

The idea of the "free man," as we understand it, is the product of a revolt against mediaeval and feudal ideas; and

is not altogether a matter of fanfaronade when the American citizen calls himself a "sovereign." A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He

A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He has no superior. He

On the other hand, a man whose labor and self-denial may be diverted from his maintenance to that of some other man is not a free man, and approaches more or less toward the position of a slave. Therefore

Now, the aid which helps a man to help himself is not in the least akin to the aid which is given in charity. If

Secondly, the American workman really has such personal independence, and such an independent and strong position in the labor market, that he does not need the union. He is farther on the road toward the point where personal liberty supplants the associative principle than any other workman. Hence

That a society of free men, co-operating under contract, is by far the strongest society which has ever yet existed; that

men who are taught to expect Government inspectors to come and take care of them lose all true education in liberty. If