Quotes About Independence

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

I would not be a queenFor all the world.

I will not jump with common spiritsAnd rank me with the barbarous multitude.

Tigers, not daughters.

Niether a borrower nor a lender be.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

He looked for a job, and the job that he found was that of an orderly in a hospital, on the night shift, where his work was emptying bed pans, wrapping up dead bodies, and doing all the other things which orderlies have to do. You never met a more emancipated man.

The first requirement of personality is always freedom—

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

My opposition is based on two grounds; first, the right of every rational being to become a "Priest unto himself," and by the test of enlightened reason, to form his own unbiased judgment of all things natural and spiritual:

The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,An intellectual All-in-all!

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here — Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.

Freedom is control in your own life.

America, to me, is freedom.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.