John F. Kennedy Quotes

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

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

What I'm really interested in is freedom.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

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

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

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

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

Freedom has its risks.

Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.