Cornerstones

By Quotations, Various

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
BRIGHAM YOUNG

And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name.
JEREMIAH 34:15 (KJV)

Independence is happiness.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
COCO CHANEL

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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.
MAHALIA JACKSON

To find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATES

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Rule your mind, or it will rule you.
HORACE

There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
TRYON EDWARDS

Independence ... is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
MARK TWAIN

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
WILLA CATHER

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
EMMA GOLDMAN

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
GALATIANS 5:1 (KJV)

The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.
MARIA MONTESSORI

The first of earthly blessings, independence.
EDWARD GIBBON

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
ALBERT CAMUS

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