Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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

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

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

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

I need freedom to be happy.

Who hath freedom hath all sufficient.

With it we can create our own destiny. It’s a sovereignty issue. It’s our land, and we’ll do what we want with it.

The power even to refuse a good ... confers unspeakable satisfaction, and is essential to freedom. Even the simple consciousness in the bosom of a freeman, that he is absolutely one—that he is the untrammeled artificer of his own destiny, is in its very self a fund of happiness, richer, purer, and more precious than could be purchased by all the wealth in the world.

The people are their own liberators.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

Now I do whatever I want.

Liberty is its own reward.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

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.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

I want to go out on my terms.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.

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

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

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

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

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.