Quotes About Independence

entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Freiheit und Frechheit : ein Buchstabe Unterschied.

Consciousness of self— the general realization that I exist independently of the circumstances of the moment—marks man's first great effort of abstraction; the detachment of the various spiritual activities from their function in the totality of his life and the unity of his world view is a second abstraction.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Never follow the crowd, go where it's empty

My desire was to leave home in an organized way. Because I was still just a kid, I decided that the best course for independence was to mind my own business and make my own money. I would do any kind of work. I was not shy at all about picking up a shovel and digging.

It wasn't that I disliked the army. In fact, it was one of the best things that had ever happened to me. Being a soldier had done a lot for my self-confidence. Once I was living independently from my family, I found out I could depend on myself. I learned to make comrades of strangers and be a comrade in return. The structure and discipline seemed more natural than at home. If I carried out orders, I felt I'd accomplished something.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

Most of us who were cooperatively bringing out the Masses were agreed upon that. Some channel of protest must be safeguarded for those who had not been stampeded into dumb obeisance to the world's war-makers.

Misery's fine -- as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

I think there's a huge gap between no longer qualifying for benefits and being able to afford a life without benefits. When I went off government assistance - six months before I got the book deal - there were some months that were lean, I mean literally lean, like I lost a lot of weight. I could barely afford food.

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.