Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

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.

This is a free country, and to each their own.

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

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

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

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

The individual is greater than the state.

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.