Gaining Full Independence

Famous quotes containing the words gaining, full and/or independence:

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

“As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)