Barry Goldwater Quotes

Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all dictatorships. And I think any kind of dictatorship is bad for the individual.

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.

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.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

In England, your life is your life.

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.

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.

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

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.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

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.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

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.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

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

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

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

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.