Mark Twain Quotes

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

It's my life and my death.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

In England, your life is your life.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

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.

The individual is greater than the state.

Everybody has the right to decide their own fate.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

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.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

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

I am pro-freedom.

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

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

Self Control, Not State Control