Quotes about Independence
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
— John Maxwell
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
— WP Kinsella
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
— Ronald Reagan
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
— Ronald Reagan
The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
— Ronald Reagan
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
— Thomas Jefferson
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
— Margaret Mead
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
— Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson