Tom G. Palmer Quotes

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.

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.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

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

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

The old theory was, that the least possible should be left to the choice of the individual agent; that all he had to do should, as far as practicable, be laid down for him by superior wisdom. Left to himself he was sure to go wrong.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the course of their own lives.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

In England, your life is your life.