Quotes about Independence

Where are you going to find serenity and independence — in something free, or something enslaved?

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

Free is the person who lives as he wishes - And cannot be coerced, impeded, or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires, and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.

Beware of the man who wants to protect you; he will protect you from everything but himself

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.