Quotes About Independence

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

I'm not a Pat Benatar clone. I wish people would forget about that comparison.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

It's great to have financial support. But having someone's emotional support is something that I wish I had more of growing up.

I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children.

We wish to work in total freedom.

I can afford to say what I wish.

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I'm not here to make everyone love me. I wish they would.

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.

I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I don't mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.