Quotes About Independence

I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better

Marshall placed enormous trust in Eisenhower, and Ike always honored him for it. "I must have assistants who will solve their own problems," Marshall told him, "and tell me later what they have done." The historian of Eisenhower's presidency can draw a direct line between these words and Eisenhower's own management style as chief executive, when he too would look for powerful and confident lieutenants and allow them the freedom to run their own departments.

Alice's message for today—in Wonderland and the world at large—is that young women can do anything they like.

So when all your friends are investing in a certain area, when the business pages are full of stories about a particular company, and when "everybody knows" that something is a good deal, haul up the red flags. In short, identify current conventional wisdom so that you can ignore it.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

The choices humans make should be active rather than passive. In making personal choices we affirm our autonomy.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was feeling the effects of time. "Here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring will give way," Jefferson grumbled in a note to Adams. He could no longer walk very far, although he tried to ride two or three hours a day.

and what if I did drink too much? Whose business is that? Who knows how much I didn't drink?

The bottom line was that people who leaned too heavily on someone else were setting themselves up for a terrible fall, and they had no one to blame in the end but themselves for the hurt they suffered. Cork had learned the hard way.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command and that is the will to obey.

In the largest sense, the preservation/sagebrush processes outlined in this story are driven by three basic components of American culture: land ownership, independence, and individualism.

In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for "All that is mine I carry with me.

Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. The hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

Omnia mea mecum porto, all that is mine I carry with me.

Something is objective if it is independent of people's opinions. If it holds or is true independently of what anybody thinks then it is objective. It is subjective if it is dependent upon people's opinions.

quest for social coherence become independent from one another. This is because on the view of relativism the search for self-fulfillment becomes radically privatized: each person chooses his own set of values and meaning.

Here's to being single, drinking doubles, and seeing triple.

bike was old and loud and smelled like something was burning when he rode it, but it was also loaded with chrome, its tank was a sweet cobalt blue, and with the detachable windshield and leather saddlebags that came with it, it was in shape enough to carry him out onto the road all over again.

It's not easy, that's all I can tell you. Living your own life is hard. It's easier just going along, doing what they tell you to do.

I think that money it is the goal of cowards. Money is what you end up wanting if you don't have putz enough to stand up and decide for yourself. Money is what they want you to want so that you will work for them every day of your life and buy what they sell and fill your house and your soul with their junk. It is for those without the courage to decide for themselves.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!