Charles Kennedy Quotes

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

In England, your life is your life.

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

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

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

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

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

Choice is an American value.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is of right, absolute.

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.

There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

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

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

I'm ready to stand tall for freedom and get Washington out of our lives.

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.

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.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.