Quotes About Independence

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence. It contracted no alliance with the turbulent passions of anarchy; but its course was marked, on the contrary, by an attachment to whatever was lawful and orderly.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.

There is nothing more prodigal of wonders than the art of being free ... but nothing is harder than the apprenticeship of liberty.

To be free, with him, signifies to escape from all the shackles of society. As he delights in this barbarous independence, and would rather perish than sacrifice the least part of it, civilization has little power over him.

Thus, it seems to me beyond doubt that, if one section of the Union seriously decided to split off from the rest, not only could no one prevent its happening but that no one would attempt to do so. The present Union will, therefore, last only as long as all the constituent states continue to wish to belong.

We should not strive to resemble our fathers but should strain to achieve a type of greatness and happiness which belongs to us alone.

If, instead of all the diverse powers which excessively hindered or slowed down the flight of reason of the individual, democratic nations substituted the absolute power of a majority, only the character of this social ill would have been changed. Men would not have achieved the means of living independently; they would simply have lighted upon—a difficult enough task in itself—a new face of enslavement.

The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.

Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

eÄŸer bir adam?n topluma kar?? gelecek yeteneÄŸi ve cesareti varsa, o, kesinlikle ortalaman?n üzerinde demektir. onu durdurmak istersiniz. onu düzeltir ve daha deÄŸerli bir hale dönüÅŸtürürsünüz, kazand?r?rs?n?z. ondan kim vazgeçebilir? bunu yapmay? yeterince sürdürürseniz, geriye sadece koyunlar kal?r.

Don't you ever run away?' 'Never. Escape is for cripples. Neurotics.

You must own nothing but yourself.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

God helps those who help themselves.

Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' That was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

My father had told me that no matter how comfortable we might feel, we must live like fish, unattached to any land. Wherever there was water, we would survive. Some fish could stay in the mud for months, even years, and when at last there was a high flooding tide, they would swim away, a dark flash, remembered only by their own kind. So perhaps the stories they told of our people were true: no net could hold us.

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.

I knew I must do all as I was told, yet something burned inside me, a seed of defiance that must have derived from a long-ago ancestor. Perhaps my mind was inflamed from the books I had read and the worlds I had imagined.

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.