Quotes About Independence

don't tell me who to kill and when. It unsettles my tranquil disposition.

His liberators were leaving the freedman to wither on the vine.

One of the things that you learn in a rural area like that is self-reliance," he said. "People do everything themselves. That kind of self-reliance is something you can learn, and my grandfather was a huge role model for me: If something is broken, let's fix it. To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Adults need to come to understand that the child does not want any of our power. He merely wants some of his own.

In order for a child to learn how to handle responsibility, he must be given responsibility to handle.

Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands.

Our country needs more tough critics like you who don't just swallow the hype like everyone else. So many writers might as well be on the payroll — be it entertainment industry or government.

Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.

whatever shape nature takes, it offers each child an older, larger world separate from parents. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Although they follow and are dependent on human activities, their cussedness and refusal to play by our rules makes them subversive, and the very essence of wildness.

If other people don't meet your needs, you have to be willing to walk out, since in the end that may well be the only one way to protect your interests.

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

So if she left you because you suck, she still did you a favor." "How is that?" "Because no one is happy living in a sick relationship, whether they're the weak link or the strong one. And if you're the weak link, this is your chance to learn that." "What are you, a marriage counselor?" "No. I'm a weak link.

If I thought my previous employer ran a sweatshop, it was an afternoon tea party compared to being self-employed.

This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes and its own factories and its thousands of secrets. It had a peculiar sovereignty, one that could bring about the end, peacefully or violently, of all other sovereignties.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.