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I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread
and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. XI)
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All we ask is to be let alone.
Author: Jefferson Davis
Source: First Message to the Confederate Congress
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
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--That to secure these Rights, Governments
are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the
the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and
and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, beginning of
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The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
Author: George MacDonald
Source: The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXVII)
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Voyager upon life's sea:--
To yourself be true,
And whate'er you lot may be,
Paddle your own canoe.
Author: Dr. Edward P. Philpots
Source: Paddle your own Canoe, written for Harry Clifton, appeared in "Harper's Monthly", May, 1854
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I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand
As is a man were author of himself
And knew no other kin.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Banquo at I, iii)
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Thy spirit, Independence, let me share!
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Source: Ode to Independence (l. 1)
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. . . but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,
And smiles at my best meanings, I remain
Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: The Foresters (act IV, sc. 1)
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Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Liberty (pt. V, l. 124)
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
[Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: Tancrede (III, 2)
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Independence now: and Independence forever.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Author: Denis Waitley
Source: None
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The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
Author: Steve Schmidt
Source: None
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True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Author: Brigham Young
Source: None
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He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise
Author: William Blake
Source: None
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It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.
Author: Mahalia Jackson
Source: None
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Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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