George W. Bush Quotes

The war must go on to last man of this generation falls in his tracks … unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for independence, and that, or extermination, we will have

I have lived life on my own terms.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

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

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I never do anything that I don't want to do.

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

I do what I want.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Peace upon any other basis than national independence, peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity, is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased at such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

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

I don't want anyone controlling me.

I don't like people telling me what to do.

I have no interest in being told what to do.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

No one can tell me what to do.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.