Quotes about Independence

"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

"Independence is happiness."

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."

"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."

"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. -David Ben"

"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."

"Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people."

"What you get free costs too much."

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means."

"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent."

"A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment."

"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."

"Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism."

"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."

"I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work to ensure that it upholds the rule of law and safeguards those liberties that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans."

"I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed."

"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."

"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."

"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."

"We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do."

"Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the equality of opportunity promised in the Declaration of Independence and warned that a healthy economy depended on widespread prosperity."

"I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me."