Quotes About Independence

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.

But I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.

You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.

you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n iÅŸine burnunu sokmamak insan?n sahip olabileceÄŸi bilgeliÄŸin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli deÄŸildir zaten.

It took you long enough to answer your phone." "It's my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don't answer it at all.

He had more than his share of that streak of anarchy which was the birthright of every American;

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that "news" is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different—in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.

A credit card is a leash around your neck. In the world of credit cards a person has no privacy…or at best protects her privacy only with great effort and much chicanery. Besides that, do you ever know what the computer network is doing when you poke your card into a slot? I don't. I feel much safer with cash. I've never heard of anyone who had much luck arguing with a computer.