Quotes about Independence

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

One day he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this way they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes.