Quotes About Independence

My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

You live alone, creating your life as you go.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

I was born alone and I will die alone. I've got to do what's right for me and not live my life the way anybody else wants it.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I loved him, but I didn't need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.

This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

All we ask is to be left alone.

Those of the South had no material cause of complaint; but, actuated by sympathy for their Northern brethren, and a devotion to the principles of civil liberty and community independence, which they had inherited from their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and which were set forth in the Declaration of Independence, they made common cause with their neighbors, and may, at least, claim to have done their full share in the war that ensued.

When our fathers dissolved their connection with Great Britain, by declaring themselves free and independent States, they constituted thirteen separate communities, and were careful to assert and preserve, each for itself, its sovereignty and jurisdiction.

The other citation of Mr. Everett is from the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence: "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another," etc., etc. This, he says, characterizes "the good people" of the colonies as "one people.