Independence Quotes

Independence is happiness.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.