David O. McKay Quotes

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

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

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty—no greater.

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

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

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.