Independence Quotes

"Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can, build your hope on none" "There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point" "I am not a bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will" "I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do" "I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny." "I like to be a free spirit Some don't like that but that's the way I am" "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever" "I can't control you" "Liberty is the breath of life to nations." "The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse." "This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave." "It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young" "I got my driver's license last week, just like we always talked about" "Common sense will tell us that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us is of all others the most improper to defend us" "Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself." "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." "Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest" "It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse" "I am not jealous of what came before me" "The more risks you allow children to take the better they learn to take care of themselves"