Quotes about Independence

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Points to ponder: Have you a method by which you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others? Are you easily influenced by others, against your own judgment? Do you form your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by other people?

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. ( Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...