Ward Connerly Quotes

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

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

Only free men can negotiate: prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

We have the right to be idiots.

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

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

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

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Of all the nations in the world, the people of the United States like freedom maybe a little better than anybody else.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

I was not born to be forced.

What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.