Quotes about Independence

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

One you learn to READ, you will be forever free

Love the natural, peaceful, and independent Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.