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Quotes About Independence

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
~ John Muir
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
~ George Sand
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
~ Ayn Rand
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
~ Errico Malatesta
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
~ Bill Moyers
They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
~ Mel Gibson
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
~ Edith Hamilton
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.
~ Sigrid Undset
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
~ Jim Harrison
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
~ Betty Ford
The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.
~ Geert Wilders
Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.
~ Roy Scheider
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~ Bob Dylan
Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.
~ Fritz Leiber
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
~ John F. Kennedy
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
~ William Wallace
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
~ Thomas Dunn English
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
~ Malcolm X
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
~ Khalil Gibran
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
~ Rudyard Kipling
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.
~ Unknown