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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State. — Thomas Jefferson

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair. — William Lyon Phelps

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep. — John T. Scopes

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. — James Larkin

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook. — Jed S. Rakoff

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian — A.E. Samaan

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. — John Wayne

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. — David Harvey

Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin

Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price. — Dick Randolph

Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal. — A.E. Samaan

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations. — David O. McKay

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — Calvin Coolidge

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison. — Ashim Shanker

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life. — Marlon Brando

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition. — Louis D. Brandeis

Legalize the right to choose wrong.
Legalize individual liberty. — A.E. Samaan

Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. — John Stuart Mill

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. — Charles Evans Hughes

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual. — Walter E. Williams

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the ... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. — Thomas Jefferson

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. — Friedrich Schiller

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty. — Elizabeth Price Foley

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century. — A.E. Samaan

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J.G. Holland

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights. — A.E. Samaan

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. — Penn Jillette

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty. — Bainbridge Colby

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit. — Mark R. Levin

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty. — Rand Paul

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness — Murray Rothbard

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Wayne W. Dyer

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will. — Aleister Crowley

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual? — D.H. Lawrence

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home. — K. Hari Kumar

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory. — A.E. Samaan

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop. — Alexander Herzen

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. — John Adams

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. — Kathleen Norris

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. — Robert H. Jackson

We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other. — A.E. Samaan

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality. — G. D. H. Cole

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty. — Henry Hazlitt

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence. — Samuel Smiles

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. — Sigmund Freud

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore

Statism is political fashion.
Individual liberty is eternal. — A.E. Samaan

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. — Ernest Renan

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? — Matt Drudge

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious. — Vince Vaughn

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties. — Frank Lautenberg

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual. — Josiah Warren

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. — Rand Paul

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. — Arthur Keith

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me. — Jimmy Wales

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. — Paul Singer

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him. — Max Stirner

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters. — A.E. Samaan

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. — Charlie Chaplin

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred. — A.E. Samaan

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual. — James Bovard

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other. — A.E. Samaan

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. — John Maynard Keynes

Individual liberty is individual power. — John Quincy Adams