L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

I am a rank individualist.

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

Freedom of speech isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.

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

Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

Men are free and claim the right to think for themselves in religious as well as political matters.

Liberty is a right which every individual must be ready to vindicate for himself, and which he who pretends to bestow as a favor, has by that very act in reality denied. Even political establishments, though they appear to be independent of the will and arbitration of men, cannot be relied on for the preservation of freedom; they may nourish, but should not supersede that firm and resolute spirit, with which the liberal mind is always prepared to resist indignities, and to refer its safety to itself.

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

The idea of the frontier is a stand-in for the idea of liberty.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

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 man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.