Independence quotes and words of wisdom

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, And to serve them one"s self?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.?Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."
John Adams


"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


"Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest."
Junius


"The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it."
Samuel Adams


"The only point in making money is so you can tell some big shot where to go."
Humphrey "Bogey" Bogart


"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
William Corbett


Interesting Quotes

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.Charles Anderson Dana

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.T. E. Lawrence