Independence Quotes

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

William Shakespeare

for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.

Albert Einstein

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Henry Kissinger

Don't let them fool ya,Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!We've got a mind of our own,So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!Love would never leave us alone,A-yin the darkness there must come out to light.

Bob Marley, from lyrics to

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

John Keats

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Steve Schmidt

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

Henry Rollins

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

David Thomas

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Albert Einstein

My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India

Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Charles Austin Beard

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Abraham Lincoln

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Thomas Jefferson

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Voltaire

Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.

Jawaharlal Nehru, Tryst With Des

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

John Donne

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Kahlil Gibran

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

William Shakespeare

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shirley MacLaine