#depend

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#imperialism #independence #isolationism #liberty #noninterventionism

To know your soul is your own, that's what counts. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#independence #individuality #freedom

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

— William Shakespeare

#blessings #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#security #traditions #freedom

The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future. ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#future #going-forward #happiness #independance #moving-on

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#independence #freedom

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring. ↗

— Samuel F. Smith

#freedom #independence-day #liberty #freedom

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#government #independence #tax #taxes #zog

Higher level independence starts with the freedom and independence of the mind to think and act according to the highest principles of knowledge and worthy traditions of a nation. ↗

— Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

#freedom

...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery. The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He is his own master. If I can keep my sheep alive through winter and can pay what has been stipulated from year to year - then I pay what has been stipulated; and I have kept my sheep alive. No, it is freedom that we are all after, Titla. He who pays his way is a king. He who keeps his sheep alive through the winter lives in a palace. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

#freedom #independence #sheep #solitude #freedom