Quotes About Independence

To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment.

It is better," says Eckhard, "to look at the wall. You look at the wall, you have your own thoughts. You look at he TV, you have the thoughts of the state.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

The self-evident truths announced in the Declaration of Independence are not truths at all, if taken literally; and the practical conclusions contained in the same passage of that Declaration prove that they were never designed to be so received.

I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never! You cannot conquer America.

I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war.

As was said by Thomas Jefferson, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

We also see the power of weakness. In Fourth Generation warfare, the weak often have more moral power than the strong. One of the first people to employ the power of weakness was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's insistence on non-violent tactics to defeat the British in India was and continues to be a classic strategy of Fourth Generation war. When the British responded to Indian independence rallies with violence, they immediately lost the moral war.

The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

Musashi could teach his techniques and give advice, but in the end each disciple was required to assess his own strength, find his own Way, and make that Way truly his own.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

So every bondman in his own hand bearsThe power to cancel his captivity.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em;Thought is free.

In following him, I follow but myself.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.