Quotes about Independence
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
— Aristotle
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
— George H. W. Bush
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
— George Washington
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.
— Ayn Rand
Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.
— Donald Trump
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
— George Eliot
We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.
— Donald Trump
I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
— Edmund Hillary
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
— Thomas a Kempis