Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

The individual is greater than the state.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect their lives; no one should be subject to the will of another.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.