Quotes about Independence

Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

I think the best possible social program is a job

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

Let God leave us! Let us grow up. Let us walk forward on our own. Because we need the silence of the holy: we need the sacred and equally we need its maddening silence. And in the curious privacy and relief of that silence we can go out into the chaos and commit a thousand acts of minor and gleeful splendor all our own. If it's our tragedy to be left by God, then let it also be our luck.