Quotes about Independence

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.