Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
Independence is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Mark Twain
Independence now, and independence forever!
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna
Independence forever.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
I don't need a prince to have a happy ending.
Ellen DeGeneres
Independence is a state of mind. Independence is about setting your own goals, making your own choices, taking control of your own destiny.
Unknown
Every human has four endowments - self-awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.
Ayn Rand
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Independence is essential to permanent but fatal to the maintenance of an established government.
John C. Calhoun
Independence means you decide according to the laws of reason and justice and not according to the dictates of public opinion.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink, you want more.
Maya Angelou