Quotes about Independence

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

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

Montana July 1897 D

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—"professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note—he got up and left the room.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.