Quotes About Independence

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

They that walk, walk with many. They that run, run with few. But those that fly, fly alone.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

Once more we shall raise our heads high, for is it not better to live standing tall, than to die on your knees?

Freedom is a wild wolf's birth right.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Except for little children, who must be rightfully restrained by their parents, no one should find themselves being controlled by another person.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Although, through the vagaries of international politics, Athens became independent and democratic again soon afterwards, and continued for several generations to produce art, literature and philosophy, it was never again host to rapid, open-ended progress. It became unexceptional. Why? I guess that its optimism was gone.

on learning how to reject their authority. This is why the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto 'Nullius in verba', which means something like 'Take no one's word for it.

This is why the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto 'Nullius in verba', which means something like 'Take no one's word for it.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

What would you call yourself if you didn't use anyone or anything else's associations to label you?

La necesidad de estar solo se considera a veces como un comportamiento antisocial.

Elle veut que personne ne l'aime. Personne, sauf elle.

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

La creación le había dado no solo una densidad insólita, sino también la capacidad de no esperar nada de nadie.

Él quería ser como ellos, escapar de la dictadura del sentimiento.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.