Shirley Williams Quotes

I don't need government to be successful.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

The peasant has learned not to rely on assistance from without, but to walk on his own feet. Socially he is conservative. He wishes to keep his land and enjoy the fruits of his labor. For generations institutions of government were to him an outside factor, for which he cared little.

Scots are very capable of making up their mind without my tuppence worth.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

Hoosiers are very independent.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

I'm an independent.

In F1, nobody is here to help you, and you have to make your place, and that is done by everyone individually.

The majority of decisions, I've always taken by myself.

I always wanted to beat my own path.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.