Mark Hopkins Quotes

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

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Self Control, Not State Control

The great thing about democracy is we're free to take in all this information and make up our own minds about what is truth.

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

We have the right to be idiots.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

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.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

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.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

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.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

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

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.