Quotes about Independence
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
— Thomas Jefferson
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson
No people who are ignorant can be truly free.
— Thomas Jefferson
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it
— Thomas Jefferson
We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.
— Thomas Jefferson
Liberty is the parent of science and of virtue, and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
— Thomas Jefferson
The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.
— Thomas Jefferson
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)
— Thomas Merton
Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.
— Thomas Merton
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
— Thomas Paine
When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good .
— Thomas Paine