Independence Quotes

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails" "Risk everything. Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth" "Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself " "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave" "To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely." "He who is brave is free" "That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity" "Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude" "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." "A child who has become master of his acts through long and repeated exercises, and who has been encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities in which he has been engaged, always shows a strong specific character: he is master of himself and knows how to conduct himself in society." "Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself." "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline" "Never ask for anything. Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They will make the offer themselves and give everything themselves." "I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years" "I am not a person to be pressured by anyone or any nation" "Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves" "It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that" "All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea" "The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self."