Quotes about Independence
From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.
- Walt Whitman
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
- David O. McKay
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
- William Hazlitt
America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.
- Hillary Clinton
The best way to progress is the path of freedom.
- John F. Kennedy
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
- John Milton
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
- Dolly Parton
The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand
The only certain freedom's in departure.
- Robert Frost
How much does free cost?
- Thomas Jefferson