Gather gear by every wile
That's justified by honor;
Not for to hide it in a hedge,
Nor for a train attendant;
But for the glorious privilege
Of being independent. [ Burns ]

Genius is independent of situation. [ Churchill ]

Our memories are independent of our wills. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

Time, - the most independent of all things. [ Hazlitt ]

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will. [ Churchill ]

Invention is totally independent of the will. [ B. R. Haydon ]

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral. [ Kossuth ]

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees. [ Burke ]

The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions. [ Porter ]

Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain. [ Chinese Proverb ]

Respect my independence! Lisette alone has the right to smile when I say: I am independent! [ Beranger ]

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. [ W. Cobbett ]

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. [ Daniel Webster ]

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God. [ Colton ]

Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. [ W. Winter ]

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. [ Gibbon ]

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]