Quotes About Independence

girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking under consideration the fact that other people and other elements, not contained within herself, would also have to aid in their molding.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgement over his destiny.

M]an's emancipation depends on his own realization of Truth, and not on the benevolent grace of a god or any external power as a reward for his obedient good behaviour.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

Resist much, obey little.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that "no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." That's becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we've lost.

Our founders, in the words of Thomas Paine, recognized that, "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

On his office wall he had a note to himself: 'Money is necessary--but it isn't too important.' Money meant for him to keep on writing and to go his own way.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

They're up here, and they're lost. Once their obedience to Earth gave them meaning, and then their struggle against it, but now they don't know what to do. They're too distracted by their structures. They got their independence, but they don't know what it means, and they're looking for the things that will give it meaning.

We weren't running the Line, Cowboy thinks, for the Northeast. Or for the money. That was what Arkady and the thirdmen never understood, always thinking we could be bought, that we would respond to economic pressure. And that's what the Orbitals don't understand, what their crystal world models can't figure. That we'd have run the Alley for nothing. Because it was a way to be free.

They told us to take anything we wanted, be we were so delighted to be free, nothing else seemed to be of any value.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.