Quotes About Independence

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

My own mind is my own church.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.