898 Quotes About Independence

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Man has proved to be a model sponsor and in particular has respected the independence and integrity of the prize.

And this year there's three of us signed up. I want to do well, so I've been trying to find the steepest roads I can around here. But it's tough. Independence Pass has the vertical gain, but it's just not steep enough.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free .....

The States are nations.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.