Quotes about Independence
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
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
— Coco Chanel
I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
— Andrew Jackson
The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
— Aristotle
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.
— Samuel Johnson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
— Cicero