Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

In England, your life is your life.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

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

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

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

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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

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.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

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.

The individual is greater than the state.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

Many Americans abhor paternalism. They think that people should be able to go their own way, even if they end up in a ditch. When they run risks, even foolish ones, it isn't anybody's business that they do.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.