William Powell Quotes

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don't know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life?

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

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.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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

Self Control, Not State Control

What government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existence is the best.

The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.