I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom - good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.
I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.