The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. – Charles Austin Beard

This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes