independence Quotes

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.