Herbert Hoover Quotes

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

We must know our limitations and expend our lives only in the cause of our independence.

I don't want anyone controlling me.

I do what I want, when I want.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

I've always done what I wanted to do.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

Freedom is control in your own life.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I am not driven.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.