Quotes about Independence
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
- Stephen Colbert
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.
- Ronald Reagan
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nations are born out of travail and suffering
- Mahatma Gandhi
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- Ayn Rand
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
- Mark Twain
Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself
- Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
- Oprah Winfrey
Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
- Og Mandino