Quotes about Independence
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.
— Oprah Winfrey
What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.
— Stephen Covey
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
— Earl Nightingale
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
— Edith Wharton
People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
American by Birth. Rebel by Choice.
— Anonymous
There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.
— Anonymous
I really hate this darn machine; I wish that they would sell it. It won't do what I want it to, but only what I tell it.
— Anonymous
Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.
— Anonymous
Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!
— Anonymous