Dennis Chavez Quotes

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

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

The individual is greater than the state.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

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.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

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

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

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

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

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 freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

… there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

… it [liberty] denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home, bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of one's own conscience and generally, to enjoy those privileges long recognized in common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

I believe that all people aspire to be free.

My highest value is not that the trains are on time. I want to be free.

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.

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