Quotes about Independence

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

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

I don't I don't really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It's all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it's what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else's opinion, they can kick rocks.