Quotes About Independence

And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

The whole point of American journalism has always been detachment from authority so that critical analysis is possible.

newsrooms and journalists have also traveled far from the substantive principles and beliefs that animated the early printers, pamphleteers, and newspaper publishers who gave birth to press freedom and American independence.

The banishment of the Constitution and republicanism, like the disembowelment of the Declaration of Independence and individualism, has been scrupulous. There is now a vast gulf between the government the progressives have constructed and the framers' Constitution.

As President Reagan famously declared, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."1

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself

The writing life: frustration, fear, independence, exhilaration, worry, adventure, a sense of the unknown.

I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string.

Maybe the most amazing thing about Gandhi's nonviolent revolution is, not that the British left, but that they left as friends, and that Britain and India became partners in the British Commonwealth.

If I needed your condescension, I'd ask for it.

Yes, we are all alone in this world. At least, when it comes right down to it. We are by ourselves, even when we're with others. All our thoughts are ours, alone.

Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

I want bad girls to win.

You don't need to look to other people to help you be successful. There's only one place you need to look in order to find the validation and motivation you need to find success. The mirror.

Pray? A waste of time. You do what you want, Adella, but I'll figure my own way, thank you. No reason to get God involved if he does not exist.

Trust in no power but your own, Emil. If you want to be saved, save yourself.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Life is so beautiful. Nobody can control your life

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.