Conrad Aiken Quotes

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

People are probably going to realize they can live with a lot less government than what they thought they needed.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

You came out of your mother’s belly without government. You have lived so far without the help of government …. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well looked upon?

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

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

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.

The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Never count on the crowd to take care of you.

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