George Crook Quotes

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

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

I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

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

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

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 don't want to be owned by anyone.

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.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.

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

We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.