Quotes about Independence

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.