Quotes About Independence

And, after all, you've got to live." "Not that way," said Roark.

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England its gritty flavor and, it has been argued, America its independence.

He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.

With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.

With each effort to suppress the spirit of liberty, Great Britain managed only to promote it.

Franklin informed his caller that the colonies understood precisely what they were doing, "for we know that separated both countries must become weak; but there is this difference, Great Britain will always remain weak; America after a time, will grow strong.

I will stand alone. I will oppose tyranny at the threshold, though the fabric of liberty fall and I perish in its ruins.

Men who preferred a church without a bishop came naturally to the idea of a state without a king.

Without the character of Samuel Adams," declared John, "the true history of the American Revolution can never be written.

Are you willing to die for yourself? If you want to be, you have to be able to take the very first step toward attaining that capability. You have to be willing to live for yourself.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

La Guerra de la Independencia [.... g]eneró dos nuevos términos políticos y militares que España proporcionó al mundo contemporáneo: «guerrilla» y «liberal».

El objetivo primordial de los criollos blancos que formaban la élite era mantener su preeminencia a cualquier precio, y una minoría —Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín y sus seguidores— también buscaba la independencia de España. Por el contrario, como consecuencia del odio que sentían hacia los criollos, los más leales a la monarquía fueron las gentes de color.

La [G]uerra [de Independencia] supuso para España la pérdida de una generación completa de desarrollo cultural y económico. Aunque los españoles se defendieron con valor, el ataque infligido por Francia fue brutal y el coste para España, elevadísimo.

Solo i pesci morti vanno con la corrente

Il vero coraggio è quando non vedi nessuno vicino a te. Allora devi partire da solo. E poi magari ti volti indietro e c'è qualcuno, in mezzo agli alberi, sulla cima di una montagna, al di là del fiume. E capisci che sta camminando al tuo fianco.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

I admire your courage. It is rare to find a woman who places her personal happiness above her fears for the future.

When the prepared foods and drip-dry shirts that had eased the work of homemakers also made it possible for men to live comfortable, if sloppy, bachelor lives . . .

Most parents would not allow more than one daughter to remain unmarried. So if one daughter had already declared herself a spinster, her sister had to conduct a marriage ceremony with a dead man, called marrying a tablet, to retain her independence. These women later told historians that "it was not so easy to find an unmarried dead man to marry," so when one did become available, they vied with one another "to be the one who would get to marry him.

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.

Passivity is aggressively doing nothing and allowing life—or anything else—to do everything for you.

No one owns me, she said. No one. No matter what binds me. No matter what shackles hold me. No matter what I am compelled to do. I am the only one who holds my heart.

Solitude is good for great minds but bad for small ones. It troubles brains that it does not illuminate." Yet Hugo was unable to go as far as his older English contemporary William Wordsworth, for whom solitude was a "bliss" that filled the heart with joy. Largely avoiding its extremes of hell and bliss, here I will explore the middle ground of solitude, which I consider a site of autonomy, wonder, contemplation, imagination, inspiration, and care.