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

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn’t be if it wasn’t for the way in which I was brought up.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.