Quotes about Independence
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
— Albert Ellis
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
— Timothy Keller
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
— Seneca
Have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.
— Paulo Coelho
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
— Fannie Lou Hamer
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
— Thomas Jefferson
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
— Millard Fillmore
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
— John F. Kennedy
Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.
— William Wallace