Quotes about Independence

On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.