Individual Independence Quotes:

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Motivational, Education, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Individual Independence

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.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

topic: Jobs, Freedom, People, Individual Independence, True Freedom

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

- Subhas Chandra Bose

source: Subhas Chandra Bose (2004). “The Alternative Leadership: Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters June 1939–1941”, p.197, Orient Blackswan

topic: Inspiring, Army, Ideas, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

topic: Hate, Lying, Bully, Individual Independence

I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It's the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Summer, Hunting, Animal, Individual Independence, Family Time

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

topic: Political, Independence, Limits, Individual Independence, Interference

To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

- Hans F. Sennholz

source: Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

topic: Educational, Philosophy, Self, Individual Independence, Old Values

Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Differences, Independence, Being Free, Individual Independence

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Men, Doubt, Ruthlessness, Individual Independence

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

- George Will

topic: Strong, Attitude, Government, Individual Independence, Crux