Quotes about Independence

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Whether the church in America is really "free," I doubt.

Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law. Each individual must govern himself, and for this morality was plainly necessary.

That country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.