Sun Yat-sen Quotes

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

Be most on guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm—as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

The individual is greater than the state.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

Liberty implies the absence of arbitrary restraint, not immunity from reasonable regulations...

The individual must not be allowed to be overly free, but the country must be entirely free. When the country can exercise freedom, China will have become a mighty and prosperous nation.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.