Quotes About Independence

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help.

spring and enough grass to last the burros for quite some time. After a careful scouting around, he made a fire of dead mesquite, which made almost no smoke, and fixed some coffee. When he had eaten, Dunbar gathered up his pan, pick, shovel, and rifle and moved out. He was

I was fed a little. I was given water. And I was visited by no one.

One would be a man alone, and alone he must fight and die, or fight and live.

listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.

to fight communism or a Communist to change capitalism…in fact, it's vastly less convincing. It's an over-reaction born of weakness. The strong, those who don't need to be told who they are by others, stand in the middle." Outside the cold wind moaned, and even as he talked he was wondering about that fire. Was it built for them? Or

The Indian must not lose pride in what he does, in his handicraft, for if he loses pride he will no longer build, his art will fail him, and he will completely be dependent upon others.

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.

for what man does not love that which he himself has built?

I have only strength and ingenuity, and neither trade nor land.

He had been the best of fathers and it was never easy to be a father to strong sons growing up in a strange land, each coming to manhood, each asserting himself, loving the father yet wishing to be free of him, finding fault to make the break easier. So it had been since the world began, for the young do not remain young and the time must come when each must go out on his own grass. I

I had already learned to listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

Louis L'Amour

I can ride anything that wears hair," she said

buckskin and maybe grabbing Lorna's bridle, too. It must have hurt when I flopped him into the saddle but he didn't make a sound, just glared at me. Taking up

stiffened and his eyes narrowed. "You seem to forget that you are the girl I'm to marry," he said, in a tone less harsh. "Naturally, I don't want you around like this." "Well, until we are married," she said coldly, "it happens to be none of your business! If you'd like to change

He carried himself with that impatient arrogance toward others that is often possessed by men who have succeeded by their own efforts, and too easily.

I had my father's contempt for the courtier who suspends his life from the fingertips of those in power, looking for morsels. I would be beholden to no man.

Always give yourself an edge, boy. You may never need it, but it saves a lot of worry. Learn to depend on yourself, and if you expect nothing from anybody else you will never be disappointed.

There's a little cowboy in all of us, a little frontier.

wealth, but he had been a hunter. Never so much at home as when he was far from home and in the deep woods, the far veldt, the desert, the mountains. THE TABLE HAD been set up

you," Wildy said

Depuis la dernière guerre, la ruine de l'indépendance temporelle des musulmans est un fait accompli. L'empire ottoman est démembré et ses dirigeants ont réduit le calife turc à n'avoir plus d'autorité que sur le domaine spirituel. Ce grand événement n'est-il pas le signe que l'évangélisation des musulmans, si longtemps retardée, va pouvoir commencer ? (Écrits Mémorables I, p. 50)