Quotes about Independence
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
— Thomas a Kempis
Only the man who says no is free
— Herman Melville
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
— Henry David Thoreau
I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.
— Amy Grant
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
— Aristotle
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
— Calvin Coolidge
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
— Thomas Merton
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
— Henry Ward Beecher