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It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.
- Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago...
- Abraham Lincoln
He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal...
- Abraham Lincoln
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore
- Abraham Lincoln
The gods help them that help themselves.
- Aesop
The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The wish to be independent in everything is false pride. Even what we owe to others belongs to ourselves and is a part of our own lives, and any attempt to calculate what we have 'earned' for ourselves and what we owe to other people is certainly not Christian, and is, moreover, a futile undertaking.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
- Dolly Parton
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
- Dolly Parton
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
- Epicurus