John F. Kennedy Quotes

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

No man can divest himself … of his liberty

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

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

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Liberty is an individual, not a collective, right.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?

I was born free.

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

No one can be free unless he is independent.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

A man is either free or he is not.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.