Quotes About Independence

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Freedom is never given, it is won.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

Freedom is from within.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.