Independence Quotes

"No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do." "I don't have anything to prove to anyone else. I'm not focused on anyone else's career." "At the end of the day, you have to live your life for yourself." "Hermits have no peer pressure" "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force" "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow" "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will" "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free" "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." "All mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions" "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way." "What a child can do in cooperation today he can do alone tomorrow" "The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." "Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."