Quotes About Independence

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

He eyed Riven. "This gnoll is legitimate?" "I verified that independently," Riven said.

Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

I understood the connexion between his idea, and my idea that no one had any rights over me, that there wasn't anyone I was answerable to except myself.

Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

The ultimate rebellion wasn't fighting the system, it was circumventing the system and living your life fully.

Don't come crying to me, Stanley. Fight your own battles." Fight my own battles? I'm five!

It was the French fear that, given that option, the U.S. would "chicken out," and sacrifice Europe to save its own skin, that led the French to develop their own independent nuclear capacity.

Don't get drawn into the other person's extreme reactions; trust your instincts and form your own judgments.

To get unstuck, you must take a different approach. Stop focusing so much on your family member and take a close look at yourself. Work on becoming more of your own person.

Acknowledging that you have the authority to make your own decisions is the first step toward making new choices and changing your life for the better.

For the person with BPD, feeling separated from someone else can be frightening. It makes them feel rejected, abandoned, and alone. So, consciously or unconsciously, they may discourage independence or independent thinking in people close to them.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master - any master - then let the rest of us know, will you.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

J' étais prétentieux, disait l'un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l'exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j'aimais et aimerai l'amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m'a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l'opinion d'autrui.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it