Vince Flynn Quotes

Self government means self support.

I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

I was emancipated at 15. I went to school and had a full-time job and apartment, and ever since, I've been on my own, parenting myself.

There's nothing free. Stay independent and don't fall.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?