Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Individual liberty is individual power.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Freedom is control in your own life.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I am a rank individualist.

I try to be as independent as possible.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.