Quotes About Independence

Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.

Surrounded by followers, he was alone.

My horse went lame about ten days back and I turned him loose.

You know us Rangers," Gilan replied. "We're notoriously bad when it comes to obeying orders.

I'll be fine. I'm a big boy now, you know.

Jij weet toch wel hoe koppig de vrouwen in jouw gezin kunnen zijn als ze zich iets hebben voorgenomen?

Don't you Mother me, Madelyn!" she snapped. Madelyn's shoulders straightened and she stood a little taller. She was two centimeters shorter than her mother, and at times like this, she felt that deficiency put her at a disadvantage. "Then don't you Madelyn me!

We don't want to have to come and rescue you.

Ik ben Cassandra,' zei ze. 'Ik ben de prinses van deze stapel bakstenen.

Remember, Halt had told him, our task is to assist the barons but our first loyalty is to the King. We are the direct representatives of the King's will and sometimes that may not exactly coincide with local interests. We cooperate with the barons and we advise them. But we maintain our independence from them. Don't allow yourself to become indebted to your baron, or to become too close to the people of the castle.

Gelukkig is het niet verplicht.' Gilan deed alsof hij even nadacht. 'Ik zou het verplicht kunnen máken.' Ze glimlachte allerliefst naar hem. 'Ja, dan kan ik eindelijk eens een opdracht aan mijn laars lappen.

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself . . . . He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...

you are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

Mankind is one thing; a man's self is another. What that self is tangles itself knottily with what his people were, and what they came out of. Mine came out of Texas, as did I. If those were louts, they were my own louts.

If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But if, having escaped or not, he wants in some way to know himself, define himself, and tries to do it without taking into account the thing he came from, he is writing without any ink in his pen.

Not to be needed is a slow death for a man.

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No fetters in the Bay State—no slave upon our land!

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master