Quotes About Independence

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, you should pause and reflect.

Cada vez que se encuentre usted del lado de la mayoría, es tiempo de hacer una pausa y reflexionar.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

Immer, wenn man beginnt die Meinung mit der Mehrheit zu teilen ist es Zeit sich zu besinnen

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

Yes. And I'm rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I'm worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn't ever want anything else

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

Cada vez que te encuentres del lado de la mayoría, es momento de hacer una pausa y reflexionar -Mark Twain-

Ours is the "land of the free" — nobody denies that — nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.]

Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one.

Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Ours is the land of the free—nobody denies that—nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.]

He said if he ever got out this time he wouldn't ever be a prisoner again, not for a salary.

It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island

I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Swimming's no good. I don't seem to care for it, somehow, when there ain't anybody to say I shan't go in.

You don't know about me without you have read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.

Toda vez que você se encontrar do lado da maioria, é hora de parar e refletir.

And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.