INDEPENDENCE : I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

INDEPENDENCE : Independence is happiness. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

INDEPENDENCE : Two roads diverged in the wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)