Quotes About Independence

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Il libro è come il padre: ti svezza, ti irrobustisce, ti fa crescere dentro la curiosità del mondo ma è anche una trappola che ti spinge ad accontentarti delle meraviglie che contiene. Per partire devi a volte rinnegare il padre, perché non puoi affrontare il mondo col suo peso sulle spalle.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

I am different. Let this not upset you.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

MUSIC CUE: Ultra Naté, "Free

Ultra Naté, "Free

Sunt gata sa dau totul cui nu cere nimic, dar nu vreau sa cedez nimic cui asteapta totul de la celalalt.

Where there are no visible conflicts, there is no freedom," Montesquieu said.

Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe.

The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance.... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it.

Going against the grain takes courage, but that courage pays off. You'll do better as an investor if you think for yourself and seek out bargains in parts of the market that everyone else has forsaken, rather than buying the flavor of the month in the financial press.

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

If, however, we take the story as a metaphor for the journey of the writer/artist, perhaps it is telling us that a time comes when we must take what we have learned, but go on without our parents, our teachers, our mentors, those who first showed us the way. We must go beyond at least some of our companions. And that necessary individuation—that breaking free—is sometimes very hard, sometimes even psychologically violent.

It's not that you should never love someone so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness- It's your best strength-

History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught in the country set free from colonialism and its puppet rulers. Africa will write her own history and it will be a history of glory and dignity.

Neither cruelty, nor violence, nor torture will make me beg for mercy, because I prefer to die with my head raised high, with unshakeable faith... In my country's predestination rather than live in submission forsaking my sacred principles.

My dear countrymen! In joy and in sorrow I will always be with you. It is together with you that I fought to free my country from foreign rule. Together with you I am fighting to strengthen our national independence. Together with you, I will fight to preserve the integrity and national unity of the Republic of the Congo.

We prefer freedom with poverty to wealth with tyranny.

I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.