Quotes about Independence
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
— Ayn Rand
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
— Ayn Rand
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
— Ayn Rand
All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
— Barack Obama
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.
— Rick Warren