Quotes About Independence

Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

Independent Journal

nothing can contribute so much to its firmness and independence as permanency in office, this quality may therefore be justly regarded as an indispensable ingredient in its constitution, and, in a great measure, as the citadel of the public justice and the public security.

They formed it almost as soon as they had a political existence; nay, at a time when their habitations were in flames, when many of their citizens were bleeding, and when the progress of hostility and desolation left little room for those calm and mature inquiries and reflections which must ever precede the formation of a wise and well-balanced government for a free people.

That nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

Alexander Hamilton

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

Give me again my hollow tree,A crust of bread, and liberty.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

And mistress of herself, though china fall.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Yes, I am more Russian than many others, and I will not sit still

Dammit, woman, you've been trying to get rid of me since I arrived in Hannibal," he rasped. "Why would you suddenly want me to stay?" She shrugged. "I'm a woman. I'm allowed to change my mind whenever I want, as many times as I want." "Convenient.

Artemisia ona kap?y? açm?yor. Arabas?na binme teklifini de geri çeviriyor. Eve kapanaca??n?, Türkler gibi eve kapal? ya?ad???n? hayk?r?yor içerden.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

I won't risk it again. I won't destroy myself for you

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is this minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

She was by herself whether she wanted to be or not, and no amount of brandy would make it any different.

Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.