Quotes about Independence

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.