Quotes about Independence

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

Every woman is a rebel.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that