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Quotes About Independence

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
~ Royal Robbins
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
~ Ronald Reagan
A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.
~ Betty Ford
You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.
~ Tina Turner
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
~ Robinson Jeffers
I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.
~ Jack Parsons
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
~ Frederick Douglass
America is best described by one word, freedom.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom. I will not give you up.
~ George Michael
There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas.
~ Willie Nelson
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
~ Jim Rohn
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.
~ Coco Chanel
At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
~ Albert Einstein
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
~ Dan Rather
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Liberties are not given, they are taken.
~ Aldous Huxley
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
~ Calvin Coolidge
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
~ Gerry Adams
Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.
~ Karl Jaspers
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
~ Benjamin Franklin
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
~ John F. Kennedy