Quotes About Independence

It's harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

The second kind you make yourself. Most people, most of their lives, most of their problems, they simply invite into their lives, sweep out a guestroom for each pain, and give it free lodging and board.

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his studies. Each replied he was getting along very well without education.

The best government is no government at all.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Your freedom and mine cannot be seperated

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.

There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents complain? Not at all -- they were glad to have lost her.

pois nas mulheres, e em particular nas do nosso tipo, por melhor que seja a disposição dos nossos corações, há sempre uma parte rainha que se autogoverna e que tem suas próprias razões de Estado, e dentre estas a mais forte é a que manda jamais se confundir a vontade com o ato.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

There was a lot to be said for a man's capacity to be comfortable while alone.

Al final, tu único amigo eres tú mismo porque los demás, llegado el momento, te dejarán todos en la estancadas. Al final, todos estamos solos.

He didn't trust people, especially children, who displayed signs of individuality.

Al final, tu único amigo eres tú mismo porque los demás, llegado el momento, te dejarán todos en la estancada. Al final, todos estamos solos.

Americans had endured centuries of patronization by the British. One became inured to it after a while.

Divorced?' 'Separated.' He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.

Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.