Quotes About Independence

the strongest reason of all for the United States [to stay out] is the fact that among all the powerful nations of the world the United States is the only one with a tradition of anti-colonialism. . . . The standing of the United States as the most powerful of the anti-colonial powers is an asset of incalculable value to the Free World

Then Marshall leaned forward—Eisenhower recalled years later that he had "an eye that seemed to me awfully cold"—and declared, "Eisenhower, the Department is filled with able men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.

suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.

I suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.

Humanists do not claim to know, we just ask you to be very wary of those who do claim to know. Who told them? What does their knowledge mean? Why should you trust them? Above all, don't take my word for it either. Don't take anyone's word for it. Find out for yourselves.

Some girls just don't know how to die.

one octogenarian "grandfather" who still used the rifle with which he had killed the Russians who tried to stop him at the border in the thirties.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.

The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

It was so simple, but it was a revelation: what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course... but you don't have to.

If you disaprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It's what I have.

Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

In a don't-give-a-fuck world, he is about to become the ultimate don't-give-a-fucker.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.