Quotes about Independence

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Freedom lies in being bold.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.