Quotes about Independence
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
- Thomas Jefferson
Strong and content I travel the open road.
- Walt Whitman
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
- Aristotle
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
- Shirley Chisholm
When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.
- Marianne Williamson
Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.
- George Washington
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
- Maya Angelou
You wanted to know how you'll make it on your own?" Manny asked as the sights and sounds of the lush Jerusalem garden gave way to the sterile hospital chapel. "You'll never know. Because you never will be.
- Max Lucado