Hubert Elvin Rance Quotes

We have loosened the formal bonds of unity with the great dominions. The destinies of their peoples are guided by their own governments. No rigid framework cramps our conversations with one another or with the world outside the family circle. When we meet together in equal freedom we are united by common allegiance to the Crown. In that model unity lies our strength.

Friends can have different dreams and do different things.

Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.

Liberia and the United States are bound together by history and values.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. ;, Don't walk behind me I may not lead. ;, Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Freedom. I won't let you down.

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

This state of independence shall be!

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?…Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose to endure the same sacrifices as your fellow comrades in arms to preserve the freedom of a land that was not yet fully yours. You accepted that you might have to pay the ultimate price on behalf of a nation to which you did not fully belong. Now, you will officially become citizens of the United States, a country to which each of you has already borne true faith and allegiance in your hearts and your deeds.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.