Terry Goodkind Quotes

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.

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

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

In England, your life is your life.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

The individual is greater than the state.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

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

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

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

Man above all institutions!

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.