Quotes About Independence

This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

The Constitution of the United States . . . stressed not independence but interdependence, not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all. —Independence Day address, July 4, 1962 (see INTERDEPENDENCE

I always wanted to watch with my own eyes without having my judgement swayed by the filters of others.

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever

Still, as I watch the sun journey higher up on the horizon, I appreciate that, for only the second time in my entire life, I am alone, blessedly alone, with no one to tell me what to do or what to wear, no one to have to be polite to. Nothing. But I do not wish to be alone, not entirely. Now that I am finally alone, it feels...lonely.

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?

Before she came here, she'd thought she could be independent. Now, she knew she could -- but only if she had the help of others and was able to help them in return.

I got myself there. No one does anything for me. So I know when I meet the right guy, it's not going to be someone like my dad. It's not going to be someone who needs me. It's going to be someone who can, for once in my life, be a hero. I'm hoping guys like that still exist.

If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

I biked over to my dad's flat and emotionally blackmailed him into lending me enough cash to leave the country. On that trip I learnt something very inmortant. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment i boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.

Being a loner and being a loner were two separate things- Fireproof

She understood it wasn't an actual fear of flying so much as a fear of being without control, which was often the crux of most fears. If you had control over a situation, there was nothing to fear.

She saw. But she went her own way just the same.

Pour l'essentiel de sa courte vie, il avait œuvré à garder son indépendance. Une fois qu'un homme commençait à collectionner les obligations, tout se déréglait, et il se retrouvait face aux murs d'une prison construite de ses propres mains.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on the popular delusion of self-government and independence. That is the subtle source of democratic tyranny, and, as such, it cannot be reached with a bullet.

It was such a hard thing, this virtue, it seemed to me. Keeping it was like having to grip the knife by the blade and defend yourself with the hilt. Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge. I was sure, as I was led away, I would be better off without it. It was better to be done with it and be gone.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism

A strong body makes the mind strong... I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.