Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

I don’t like to feel so crazy about someone. I don’t like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

It is error alone which needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Latin America neither wants, nor has any reason, to be a pawn without a will of its own; nor is it merely wishful thinking that its quest for independence and originality should become a Western aspiration.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made

We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood… So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.”

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which have cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

The jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an “I” in independence, individuality and integrity.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

I’m going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent—it builds character.

I’m a free bitch baby.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Resist much, obey little.

Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.