self-sufficience

Try, instead of blaming everything on everyone, getting out and personally making a change that would put people on the road to self-sufficience.

Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010

The idea of self-sufficience is barely alive with the youth of today, but when the money runs out they will be standing in some line waiting to see who will “help” them.

Think Progress » Inhofe trying to get Bunning to end filibuster so highway funding doesn’t expire. 2010

Try, instead of blaming everything on everyone, getting out and personally making a change that would put people on the road to self-sufficience.

Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010

More than nine in ten older Americans say independence is among their foremost objectives.14 Getting help at the Glenridge may count for the residents as a version of self-sufficience, freeing them from the fear of burdening family and friends.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

The greatest of all overthrowers, he always understood that it is towards such ages as these, the too short ages of conviction and self-sufficience, that our endeavor works.

Voltaire 2007

When we don't make or create or discover anything and DO IT ALL HERE, our industrial economy lacks self-sufficience.

Somehow, We Have Grown Too Small for Our Britches Rogers 2005

He was born blind, and turned to the blues as the only means of self-sufficience for a black man in the south.

Rural Blues:Structure And Development In The Post-Civil War South Bluesman Harry 1998

It is only hard for one who is penetrated by true interest in the opinion and action of his fellows, thus to keep both sympathy warm and self-sufficience true.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

This cardinal doctrine of limitation of desire, with its corollary of self-sufficience, contains in itself the great maxim that Emilius and every one else must learn some trade.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

Our first parents, they would be as gods, they would have an auta'rkeia, a self-sufficience; they would stand upon their own bottom, without the support of divine influence; they would fetch all their happiness from within, without repairing to the bounty of

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823