Quotes About Independence

did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence"—applied

Lafayette, "I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence." Spoken like every only child ever. Lafayette

The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word "dude.

More than anyone on earth, Lafayette was mournfully aware of the uniqueness of the American republic he had fought to build.

I don't have a driver's license (phobia).

Jacey's eyes hardened. She did not appreciate reality coming along and snapping her thong.

La Solitude est un condition necessaire de la liberte.

we are abandoned in the world ... in the sense that we find ourselves suddenly alone and without help. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

If love is love, it's free.

Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want. I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time? I intend to use it. I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?

To accept too many favors from Ramona was dangerous. He might have to pay with his freedom. Of course he didn't need that freedom now; he needed a rest. Still, after resting, he might want his freedom again. He wasn't sure of that, either. But it was a possibility.

He liked to wear good clothes, but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way.

A rich man may be free on an income of a million net. A poor man may be free because nobody cares what he does. But a fellow in my position has to sweat it out until he drops dead.

I'm going to shake this off. I'm not going to be a victim. I hate the victim bit

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.

But ask not what your country can do for you. Come up with a plan yourself. Social media will judge it and forward it to the mainstream media and the candidates themselves. Ask yourself what you want and create a deal structure that gets it for you. Who is stopping you? (from his blog: 'Deportation and Deals 8/31/16)

That was the tipping point for me. I called a meeting with my mother and announced that I was discontinuing my religious education. I explained my new hypothesis that she and all other believers were being duped for reasons I couldn't understand, but I planned to get to the bottom of it. My mother listened to my reasoning, acknowledged that I was making a well-informed decision, and never asked me to attend church again. My mom was awesome that way.

As a trained persuader, I prefer not to join any kind of tribe. Doing so triggers an automatic bias toward tribe opinion and blinds one to better thinking. It also marks you as an enemy to competing tribes.

Arab independence was only guaranteed in those lands that the Arabs freed themselves.

Laughter, it turns out, is the soul of liberty.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. But you're... Pretty? Think again. She smiled. I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.