Quotes about Independence
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
- Tony Campolo
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
- Anonymous
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
- James K. Polk
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
- Lucille Ball
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
- Ronald Reagan