Quotes About Independence

e ela concluiu que a vinda de Selden, se não provava que ele ainda estava envolvido com Mrs. Dorset, mostrava que ele estava completamente livre a ponto de não temer a proximidade dela.

Las mujeres deberían ser libres..., tan libres como nosotros —declaró, descubriendo algo cuyas terribles consecuencias estaba demasiado irritado para medir.

No debes pensar que una chica sabe tan poco como imaginan sus padres. Una oye, una se da cuenta..., una tiene sus propios sentimientos e ideas.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.

An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.

It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.

We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

A work is completed without deference to a husband, an absurd epic of maudlin childhood is about to be sent to a pimp, before a husband is allowed to correct it," he said seething. "You would only tinker with it," she said fearless, though fearing.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge.

The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. -V6

The historian is necessarily selective. The belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively and independently of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy, but one which it is very hard to eradicate.

Washington had dreamed of Potomac River navigation long before independence made it a patriotic cause. Not only could such a waterway improve access to his frontier holdings, it would channel western trade through the mouth of the Potomac near his Mount Vernon plantation. Both would increase his wealth.

By 1787, four years since the United States secured its independence, Washington had come to believe that the country faced as grave a threat from internal forces of disunion in the mid-1780s as it had from external ones of tyranny in the mid-1770s, when he accepted leadership of the patriot army at the outset of the Revolutionary War.

What better way to destroy a civilization, society or a race than to set people into the wild oscillations which follow their turning over their judgment and decision-making faculties to a superhero?

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

It was evident that Madame Restell not only liked to do as she pleased, but to talk about it as well.

Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc

But people don't fight each other in America.' Said Luke with feeling. 'What do you mean!' His father cried. 'They're always fighting in America. First they fought the English, and then they fought the Indians, and then they fought each other. They're worse than us.

Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.