Quotes About Independence

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

Financial freedom is freedom from fear.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.