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Quotes About Independence

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
~ John Henrik Clarke
God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
~ Dave Grohl
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
~ Christopher Hitchens
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
~ Sitting Bull
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
~ Mary McCarthy
I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
~ Anthony Hopkins
those who are afraid of freedom are those who cannot trust us to live in them. Trying to keep the law is actually a declaration of independence, a way of keeping control
~ William Paul Young, The Shack
I only answer to two people, myself and God.
~ Cher
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
~ Dennis Prager
I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
~ Elizabeth I
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
~ Anais Nin
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
~ Beth Moore
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
~ John Stuart Mill
Our rights come from nature and God, not government.
~ Paul Ryan
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.
~ Frederic Bastiat
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
~ Daniel Webster