Quotes About Independence

On July 6, while Captain Hamilton wandered about trying to find a purse with money that he had lost—he sometimes had a touch of the absentminded genius—the local press announced independence.

At one point, Bill suggested that if John didn't find work he might have to return to the country; the thought of such dependence upon his father made "a cold chill" run down his spine, Rockefeller later said.27 Because he approached his job hunt devoid of any doubt or self-pity, he could stare down all discouragement. "I was working every day at my business—the business of looking for work. I put in my full time at this every day.

Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

Never lend your name, or your money, or your books or your umbrella, or anything, to anybody - if you're wise.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

What would this country be without this great land of ours.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

the Polish people be allowed to have a voice in the kind of govt. they want. Under the Yalta Pact the Soviets agreed they & others would be allowed to do this. The Soviets have never honored that promise.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

all of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government. . .

Liberty has never come from government," Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR's predecessors and another Democrat, said. "The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government's power, not the increase of it.

If [the people of the world] are incapable, as some would have us believe, of self-government, then where among them do we find any who are capable of governing others?

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.