Quotes About Independence

The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.

He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that your happiness may be independent of all outside events.

Many were surprised at the British vote to leave the European Union, but from a historical perspective there was nothing unusual about the English seeking distance from the continent.

Whose mouse are you?" Nobody's mouse. "Where is your mother?" Inside a cat. "Where is your father?" Caught in a trap.

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

That woman," Bandar liked to say of the British prime minister, "was a hell of a man.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

As he later explained to Monuments Man Bernie Taper over drinks in a Berlin apartment, 'There's one good things about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free. When my time comes, let my soul soar into the wind and the sky. Wherever its natural home is meant to be, that's where it will go." Although she had found such

The soul," he'd said one night by a campfire in the Valley of the Kings, "is like a falcon. Despite its loyalty to the falconer, it longs to fly free.

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has.

Here was a man who had not gone along with the crowd. He was a man who did his own thinking and detested the words, "We have to do it this way because that's the way everyone else does it." He also hated the word "can't." If you wanted him to do something, just say, "I don't think you can do it.

The first lesson of having money work for you, as opposed to you working for money, is all about power. If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If money works for you, you keep the power and control it.

That is what freedom is—the power to choose.

Once you have decided to concentrate on minding your own business—focusing your efforts on acquiring assets instead of a bigger paycheck—

the "wants." I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love. I want to be young when I do this. I want to simply be free. I want control over my time and my life. I want money to work for me.