(932 quotes found)
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”
Pope John Paul II
“Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.”
Phyllis Diller
“The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully”
Epicurus
“Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.”
Davy Crockett
“There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means”
Calvin Coolidge
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .”
Charlotte Bronte
“Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn”
Henry Louis Mencken
“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”
Carl Rogers
“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.”
Brigham Young
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Benjamin Franklin
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