Quotes about Independence

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.