Quotes about Independence
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
— Lauren Bacall
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
— Zig Ziglar
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
— Ayn Rand
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
— Thomas Jefferson
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
— Henry David Thoreau
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
— Joyce Meyer
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln