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
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
— Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
— Thomas Paine
Our present condition, is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independance contending for dependance.
— Thomas Paine
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.
— Thomas Paine
As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.
— Thomas Paine
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
— Thomas Paine
Though we have been wise enough to shut and lock the door against an absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.
— Thomas Paine
It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.
— Thomas Paine
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
— Thomas Monson
I don't kiss nobody's butt.
— Dolly Parton
For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.
— Shonda Rhimes