Claudian Quotes

Freedom does not mean license.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

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.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

In England, your life is your life.

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.

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

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

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

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.