Quotes About Independence

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

Respect the gods and buddhas, but never rely on them.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.