Quotes About Independence

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

I'm all groan up in America.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.