Quotes About Independence

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

The bit was in my mouth. At last, for the first time since sleeping in crab-infested blankets in the dressing-room at Hayling Island, living on evaporated milk and biscuits, swanking about as a peroxided Hamlet, to an audience of geriatric holiday-makers, I had contrived some sort of personal control over the whole brash enterprise. I would only have myself to blame. The release from benign paternalism was firingly enjoyable.

If you've no world of your own, it's rather pleasant to regret the passing of someone else's.

Alison: I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Any more. I can't take it on. Cliff: You're too young to start giving up. Too young, and too lovely.

Be Different Be unique. Be different. Stop following the crowd. Listen for the sound of that distant drum. The successful person and the average person approach life differently. The average person, it seems to me, likes to take the easy way out. It's almost as if the average person wants to get through work just to rush home to do very little, or nothing at all. Television

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

A LATTER DAY NATION "Behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert." (Jeremiah 50:12 (b) – KJV). It was only about 500 years ago that the new world was discovered by the 'civilized world'. And it's only been about 230 years since our founding fathers declared that we were a separate nation.

Se me ocurrió la idea de dejarlo ir todo, y lo hice. Dejé de programar citas de negocios y renuncié a intentar que la gente hiciera lo que yo quería.

The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth ... it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfilment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before.

The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence. The memory of it is interwoven with that of our arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be forgotten, and we should hail with exultation the moment which should indicate a recollection equally friendly in spirit on the part of France.

In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with glory some of the preceding years it has only been from the banishment of all external force against which the struggle had been maintained. The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.

[America] goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

Por donde sea que el estandarte de la libertad y la independencia se haya desplegado o se vaya a desplegar, ahí estarán su corazón, sus bendiciones y sus plegarias. Pero no irán a ultramar en busca de monstruos que destruir. Desearán la libertad y la independencia de todos, pero sólo serán paladines y justificadores de sí mismos.

The goal of any self-respecting human being tolerant of others is to favor anything that increases a person's ability to control her own fate, and at the very least maintain sovereignty over her own body.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

I am an aristocrat: I love liberty, I hate equality.

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.