Maria Montessori Quotes

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

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

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

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

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.