Quotes About Independence

a man who is his own man is a better man than most men, even if he doesn't fit in.

The mind has a mind of its own.

His master was a man with the heart of a dog. He was a rambler, a rough-and-ready soldier of fortune, a one-of-a-kind two-leg who improvised the rules as he went along. They

It was a dizzying prospect—to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made. He could go anywhere he wanted, he could do anything he felt like doing, and not a single person in the world would care.

Etan Patz se había despedido de su madre una mañana y había bajado a esperar el autobús del colegio (era el primer día después de una larga huelga de autobuses y el niño quería ir solo, hacer ese pequeño gesto de independencia) y nadie había vuelto a verlo. Fuera lo que fuese lo sucedido, no dejó rastros".

porque en aquella etapa de la vida los padres eran sin duda la gente menos interesante del mundo y cuanto menos se tuviera que ver con ellos, mejor.

One of the Framers, Thomas Jefferson, said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

were not ready for freedom.

America is a land of opportunity, not entitlement, which is clearly spelled out by our inspired Founding Fathers who wrote the U.S. Constitution.

Your dad used to think I was bipolar, but what I really am is by myself.

true freedom is having the right to be a slave.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

The forests have taught man liberty.

Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette.

No one on this earth is accountable to bring you what you need or want. It's not up to your wife or girlfriend to fill your emotional holes. That work is yours. Your boss isn't on the hook to provide a living for you. That's your job. It's not your minister's role to maintain your relationship with God. That's up to you. Your kids are yours to nurture, not yours to nurture you.

Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations.

Don't fear your weaknesses—God supplies all the strength you need. Be afraid of those moments when you think you're independently strong.

Successful parenting is the rightful, God-ordained loss of control. The goal of parenting is to work ourselves out of a job. The goal of parenting is to raise children who were once totally dependent on us to be independent, mature people who, with reliance on God and proper connectedness to the Christian community, are able to stand on their own two feet.

Paul is saying that we do the right that we do because grace is at that moment rescuing us from ourselves. Grace is protecting us from the self-righteousness and self-sovereignty that would make us all too independent and all too rebellious. Every moment of our obedience is an evidence of and a celebration of the grace that not only forgives but rescues, and not only rescues but transforms. We live in God's sight not in our own strength, but only by grace.

They treat me like some sort of pet cat but claws I have, and claws I will use

If a woman does marry, I suggest she has her own bed.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.