Independence Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or mountain:

“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The broken ridge of the hills
was the line of a lover’s shoulder,
his arm-turn, the path to the hills,
the sudden leap and swift thunder
of mountain boulders, his laugh.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)