Independence Quotes and Messages
Independence is the state of being free from outside control or constraint. It is the ability to live your life on your own terms, without having to answer to anyone else. These inspiring independence quotes will motivate you to pursue your dreams, live your life authentically, and never give up your freedom:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The only way to deal with a unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Independence is a condition of a nation, not a work of one man or a party.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Independence is the only way for personal development.
Independence is happiness.
The greatest gift you can give someone is the freedom to be themselves.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Independence is a state of mind. It's all about believing in yourself.
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.