Quotes About Independence

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Great minds think for themselves.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

The great object is that every man be armed.

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.