True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

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

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Nobody is my boss.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I was raised to be independent.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

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.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

I got my own back.

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

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

Solitude is independence.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

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.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.