Independence Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or mountain:

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

“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)