Quotes About Independence

She'd stand on her own two feet if she had to crawl.

even before she charged out of her lawyer's office.

You will know what to do yourself. Great girl, a stór.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

She had thought because he loved her body that he cherished it. But now she saw that he took her body to be a dream of his own. It gave him pleasure, it gave him work, it gave him comfort, and profit. It was even more completely his body than his own, since if he needed to, he could discard it. Nothing she had imagined about who she was to him was true. At that moment, she became his widow.

I vowed to myself to do everything possible to help my parents be happy, and I prayed they would work at it, too. I knew I wanted to provide them with every bit of support I could without taking away their own legs to stand on.

Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts I wish the walls were still there to protect me. It feels like growing up, as if the safety of the childhood has been stripped away, and I've woken up on the edge of something dangerous. The walls are gone and I can do as I please. It's a freedom I'm not so sure I'm ready for.

Oh, Oiseau, you want Independence, but that idea weighs you down like handcuffs. First, be free before the idea. Then: make a list of the things in your head and in your stomach that chain you up. That's where it starts, that struggle of yours...

I'll bet I'm the only eighty-five-year-old cracker left with all his own teeth.

We're breaking a Seminole rule already.

Why darling, I'm your Auntie Mame!

The machete was needed anytime you had to slash out your own trail. This necessity arose more often than a person who is not a kid with a machete might think.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (American Revolutionary War)

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

The great object is that every man be armed.

Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry .]

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Cho tôi t? do hay ?? tôi ch?t.

but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!