Quotes About Independence

You don't own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

Once can lead a child to knowledge but one cannot make him think.

Robert A. Heinlein

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

Manuel, on some subjects I don't trust even myself. Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.' We are not yet free nor will we be as long as anyone—even our ally Mike—controls our news. Someday I hope to own a newspaper independent of any source or channel. I would happily set print by hand, like Benjamin Franklin.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'.

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . . it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. —Thomas Paine

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787

Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves.

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He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave him alone!—all

We lived here a while. No annex then, had to have an armed guard just to pee.

nobody has ever been able to keep a girl off her back when she decides it's time. When she decides—that's the key to the matter.

Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow

Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.

Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Decentralization, dear

Control of anything essential to life should be decentralized and paralleled so that if one machine fails, another takes over.

Pop says cops and courts no longer protect citizens, so citizens must protect themselves." "I'm afraid he's right." "My husband, I can't evaluate my opinions of right and wrong because I learned them from my parents and haven't lived long enough to have formed opinions in disagreement with theirs." "Deety, your parents did okay.

Women are more rugged than men; they have to be.

I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal—a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.