Quotes about Independence

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

She owed no one an explanation; if she had made mistakes she had been duly punished by giving up her family, suffering in the hold of the ship, losing her baby, and facing a future of total uncertainty.

Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.

Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.