Samuel Gridley Howe Quotes

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

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

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

There is no nation on the earth that wants, for its security, to depend on anybody else.

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

I've always took care of myself.

You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you.

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend yourself.

You grow up rough, you think differently. You think you've got to protect yourself at all times. I didn't want any help. I thought I could do everything by myself, which you can't.

I can look after myself and my own.