Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
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The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
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The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
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