Quotes About Independence

If you've got any education, it don't matter to you if you're on the road for the rest of your life... If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here"'—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

Una vez que tu horario se convierte en tu propio, todo lo demás se vuelve insignificante.

These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and especially against the lethal temptation to exchange freedom for security: a bargain that invariably ends up with the surrender of both.

La libertad consiste en decir que dos y dos son cuatro.

Mais, à tout prendre, les animaux trouvaient plaisir à ces célébrations. Ils étaient confortés dans l'idée d'être leurs propres maîtres, après tout, et ainsi d'Å"uvrer à leur propre bien.

Kuid on ka andekate, isemeelsete inimeste vähemus, kelle määranguks on omaenda elu lõpuni elada, ja kirjanikud kuuluvad sellesse klassi.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity

We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

Every gold piece you save is a slave to work for you.

How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this?

I am pondering what you have said to me. I wonder if I have the soul of a slave. I cannot join them, so I must sit apart.

Have I the soul of a slave or the soul of a free man?

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

large enough so the income will take care of us from then on.

ASÍ QUE VIENEN MUCHAS BENDICIONES AL HOMBRE QUE ES DUEÑO DE SU PROPIA CASA. Y REDUCIRÁ EN GRAN MANERA SUS GASTOS DE VIDA, CAUSANDO QUE TENGA DISPONIBLE MÁS DE SUS GANANCIAS PARA LOS PLACERES Y LA GRATIFICACIÓN DE SUS DESEOS. ESTE, ENTONCES ES EL QUINTO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. SÉ DUEÑO DE TU PROPIA CASA».

Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.

Randall Jarrell said about stories holds true for the writers of stories: they "don't want to know, don't want to care, they just want to do as they please.

Our path is not for everyone. Many people—I do not mean to disparage them? Lack the necessary resolve.

That thing in my box? he said. Has nothing to do with me.

Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, endeavor to do something for us, so that we might do something for ourselves. We are ready, sir; are angry, are capable, our hopes are coiled up so tight as to be deadly, or holy: turn us loose, sir, let us at it, let us show what we can do. --thomas havens

endeavor to do something for us so that we might do something for ourselves. We are ready sir....

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

At that point in my life, I was not looking for a career. I viewed my first decade after college as a time to explore. I didn't want anchors to hold me down. If something caught my attention, I would try it. If not, I would move on.