Quotes About Independence

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

Nevins explained that the traits of a decentralized society-flexibility, shared power, ambiguity-made the Apaches immune to attacks that would have destroyed a centralized society.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Human beings never submit to human beings

If you don't give a damn what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years—a thousand years—with no difficulty whatsoever.

I yearned with such desperation for "freedom" that I became weak and tearful.