Quotes About Independence

Liberty is potential. To create a free being is to place before it the problem of its destiny.

If there be an axiom evident to all, it is this, that liberty is a first necessity of existence.

God wills man to be free, but the emancipation of himself is in man's own hands.

The free creature can alone say of itself "I am." In a word, the free creature is the only one with veritable being.

When the creature takes full possession of the liberty it has received it becomes a person.

I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's," Waits said on the album's release.

We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

I never had a man nor a son nor anything. I just call myself Missis to give me a standing.

Why did God create Adam before he created Eve? Because he didn't want anyone telling him how to make Adam.

savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

after our split, I wanted to believe that whatever had been between us was unique, that it could never happen again. Because if it was exceptional, it must be an exception, maybe even the exception that proved the rule. And the rule was that I would always be alone, and could never trust anyone.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?

Kevin: 'Hey, Dad. How do you stop people from being stupid?' Dad: 'You don't.' Kevin: 'Really?' Dad: 'I've tried to explain to people when they're being stupid, but then I realized something: Most people like being stupid.' Kevin: 'I don't get it.' Dad: 'Some people just prefer it. It makes their lives easier if they let other people think for them.' Kevin: 'But that doesn't make sense. That's just stu...Oh...

I'm strong thanks to you, Kyra. You're my strength." And who the hell was she to put that burden on me? I was her strength? Then what did that mean as the cancer ate her from the inside out? What did that mean as she got weaker and weaker and weaker? When the cancer migrated her brain and made her forget things and space out randomly? You can't rely on other people to be your strength. You have to be your own strength.

Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.

I won't let myself be used or manipulated. I won't let myself be a hypocrite. I am foe me. I am not weak. For anyone.

That night, after dark, before the rain, I sneak out of the house. I've mastered this particular skill over the course of many dead nights, when the silence is too loud and the solitude too confining. [...] the truth is, I could simply leave.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery. Secondly,

Thus, from cradle to grave, having control over one's life matters.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong: and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escapes the perils of youth, an independence and a vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

What if we have to figure out how to live and what to believe on our own, without setting the Bible up as a false idol—or an oracle that gives is a direct line of communication with the Almighty?

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.