Quotes about Independence

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

One day he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this way they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes.

Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart - or the tougher you are - and at times I thought I was pretty tough - the more trouble you have.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.