Quotes about Independence

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck. Tom, I am not everybody.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.