Quotes about Independence

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we're always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they'll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

Freedom in Christ produces a healthy independence from peer pressure, people-pleasing, and the bondage of human respect.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Friendship and love cannot develop in the form of an anxious clinging to each other.

The problem, however, is that we not only want our freedom but also fear it.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.