Sam Allardyce Quotes

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor ... Each of the things is, by the respective party, called by two different and incompatible names—liberty and tyranny.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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

No man may make another free.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

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

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

No people must be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live.

If you give people an opportunity for self government and freedom, most people will reach for freedom

Certainly the people have the right to say that they do not want to do something.

This is the first step on the odious ground of conscription—a plan sir, which never will and never ought to be submitted to by this country while it retains one idea of civil freedom.