Quotes about Independence

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

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.

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth ... it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfilment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Encourage Independent Thinking—While the children and youth gain a knowledge of facts from teachers and textbooks, let them learn to draw lessons and discern truth for themselves.

For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.