Quotes about Independence
I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
- Mae West
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
- James Madison
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
- Coco Chanel
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
- Walt Disney
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- Mortimer Adler
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
- DH Lawrence
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
- Harry S. Truman
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
- Napoleon Hill
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
- Abraham Lincoln
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- Frederick Douglass