William Lloyd Garrison Quotes

In England, your life is your life.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

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.

Liberty is that principle of spontaneity, or self-determination, which constitutes us as agents, or which gives us a command over our actions, rendering them properly ours, and not effects of the operation of any foreign cause

In this country I am my own master and may do as I please

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

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.