Quotes about Independence
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
- Ronald Reagan
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
- Mike Huckabee
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
- Wendell Berry
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
- Ronald Reagan
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
- Amelia Earhart
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
- Publilius Syrus
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
- Ayn Rand
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
- Andrew Carnegie
Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.
- Joyce Meyer