Quotes About Independence

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

There is a place for government in the affairs of men, and our Declaration of Independence tells us precisely what that place is. The role of government is to protect individuals in their God-given individual rights. Freedom is the natural birthright of man, but all that government can do in behalf of freedom is to let the individual alone, and it should secure him in his rights by making others let him alone.

People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Deny them [the colonies] this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

The mad can make their own laws.

Either he must cease to think for himself; or his individualism must be instantly confirmed, and the necessity of religious independence must be emphasized.

We have earned the slogan, "Yanks, go home!"

Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren't Indian days—pioneer scalping days.

people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun 'tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

The younger generation forms a country of its own.

But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

The Fugitive" Thanks be to God the world is wide, And I am going far from home, For I forgot in Camelot The man I loved in Rome, And I forgot in Kensington The man I loved in Kew; And there must be a place for me To think no more of you.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Mi conclusión fue que Madrid y Barcelona eran dos ciudades completamente distintas, sobre todo en lo referente al modo de vivir y de relacionarse las personas. La gente de Madrid siempre me pareció más desenvuelta, más independiente y mucho menos convencional que la de Barcelona, donde todos los catalanes parecían estar emparentados entre sí

No hay razón práctica que justifique el deseo de independizarse de España. Comparativamente, y pese a todo, España no es un mal país. Podría ser mejor, pero dudo de que Cataluña, librada a sus fuerzas, se convirtiera en el paraíso que anuncian los partidarios de la nueva República.

ni los unos, ni los otros creían que se avanzaría tanto y que el impulso separatista se haría tan extenso y dinámico. En este terreno la responsabilidad del gobierno español es considerable. Vio el independentismo como un proyecto inviable acariciado por unos pocos. Como tenía de su parte la ley y la fuerza, nunca quiso abordar el problema precisamente cuando no existía.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

At that moment I was ready to forsake my other home, forsake my mother and father and little sister and all my friends, and spend the rest of my life in the desert eating cactus for lunch, drinking blood at cocktail time, and letting the ferocious sun flay me skin and soul. I'd gladly have traded parents, school, a college education and a career for one dependable saddle hourse. Later that night, of course, alone in bed, the deadly homesickness would strike me faint.

Most of my wandering in the desert I've done alone. Not so much from choice as from necessity—I generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.