Quotes About Independence

Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."40

You can never attain full awareness following the actions of the majority.

You can rely on a steady paycheck every two weeks building another persons business or you can generate income on a daily basis building your own. I chose the latter of the two options.

You can reply on a steady paycheck every two weeks building another persons business or you can generate income on a daily basis building your own. I chose the latter of the two options.

people grow apart, and sometimes there's nothing anyone can do about it

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

"As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world, and then get my own apartment."

They don't want to be grown-ups. They're so rich they don't think they have to get old. They lived down here when they were twenty-three and they want to relive their bohemian days, except not crammed into a tiny apartment with roommates who never flush the toilet. I didn't have bohemian days. I worked.

Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

Role models or not, in the end every man has to decide for himself just what kind of man he will be.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

You have to be enough for yourself, Maddie. No one else can do it.

No hay nada más bello que un hombre cuando avanza. El soldado que sale de las filas y declara que él es voluntario. El torero que sale del burladero, despide a sus peones y despliega su capa... Todo se resquebraja en el corazón de los otros hombres cuando uno de ellos avanza dos pasos, se separa del grupo y forja, así, en derredor suyo, la infranqueable barrera del respeto

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

We heed no instincts but our own.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.

Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband was relief…[H]er current solitude was not just a respite, it was a time to contemplate her future options. Nina marveled that she had choices to consider.

Mama and Nathan lean on me a lot, but they give me a lot of rope, too. Maybe too much." "Maybe," I say. "I can shorten it for you.