Will Rogers Quotes

The individual is greater than the state.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

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

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

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

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

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 spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

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