Achieved Independence

Famous quotes containing the words achieved and/or independence:

“Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do with my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.”
—Richard Burton (1925–1984)

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