Henry Lawson Quotes

There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.

The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

I know I'm not what everyone says I'm supposed to be. But I'm gonna say what I want, and this is me, and I'm gonna be American whether you like it or not.

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

I have to do this my way.

As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I've always done things my way.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.