William Powell Quotes

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

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.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

I own my own time.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I appreciate individualism.

I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.

Now, I simply do what I want.

I am a rank individualist.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

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

Dare to be Free.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.

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

I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.

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