Quotes about Independence
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
— Dennis Prager
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
— Neil Anderson
We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.
— Beth Moore
All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
— Abraham Lincoln
A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'
— Oprah Winfrey
You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.
— Karen Kingsbury
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
— Dustin Hoffman
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
— Theodore Roosevelt
My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
— Diane von Furstenberg
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson