Edith Hamilton Quotes

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

When you give the American people the tools to make the right choices for themselves, they're going to do that.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

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

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

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.

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

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

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

I went my direction, my direction is whatever I want to go.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

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

Voting is an individual, personal thing.

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

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.