Quotes about Independence

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

The wish to be independent in everything is false pride. Even what we owe to others belongs to ourselves and is a part of our own lives, and any attempt to calculate what we have 'earned' for ourselves and what we owe to other people is certainly not Christian, and is, moreover, a futile undertaking.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.