P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all dictatorships. And I think any kind of dictatorship is bad for the individual.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.

I'm standing for real freedom.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

It's my life and my death.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.