The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

Hermits have no peer pressure.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I was raised to be independent.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

America is another name for opportunity.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Work alone is noble.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.