Quotes About Independence

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

God help those who do not help themselves.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

made a pilgrimage to Fort Robinson, where he chose death over the loss of his freedom.

By snowshoe, canoe, or dog team, they moved through those woods, rivers, and lakes. It was not a life circumscribed by a clock, stamp, fence, or road.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.

Lindbergh expressed these thoughts in a splendid speech while accepting the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at the Washington Aero Club in January 1946. Titling his speech "Honoring the Wright Brothers," he took as his theme "the way in which science was divorcing man from his old sense of independence and moral values."16

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

Become a ghost. Forget the attention. Just hustle.

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or a fancier of horses, be something... be something definite...

You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

We have stood apart, studiously neutral.

14. A general association of nations must be formed… for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.