Self-Sufficient
"The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm." - Swedish proverb
"Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility." - Harry Browne
"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance." --President Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933)
"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance." --The laws of Manu