John Howard Quotes

We will not have Americans telling us what to do... We cannot be brought to our knees.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The time has come. It is Independence or Death!

We will implement what we want. What we do not want, no one can impose on us

I can have someone tell me to do stuff all the time every day, and if I don't want to do it, I ain't gonna do it.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I do not take orders from Washington, and I suggest that no one else should either.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

I'm not going to conform to some consumer need.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I don't run behind authority.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

Our ancestors have always regarded independence as fundamental to the concept of a nation.

You simply cannot conquer a people who don’t want to be conquered

The struggle now is the struggle for our emancipation; the struggle now is the struggle for our independence. Joy Bangla!. Since we have given blood, we will give more blood. God-willing, the people of this country will be liberated...Turn every house into a fort. Face (the enemy) with whatever you have…. This time the struggle is for our freedom!

A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent. For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

You have no enemy but England…. Although we fought once and lost, it is only a lesson for the second time…. Every vote you give now is as good as the crack of a rifle in proclaiming your desire for freedom.

Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!

Freedom. I will not give you up.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.