Jon Anderson Quotes

Liberty is its own reward.

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.

Independence is happiness.

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

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for …, to wit a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

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.

I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for, since the days of Nimrod, to wit, a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

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

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

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

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

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.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.