John von Neumann Quotes

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Unless men are taught to rely upon themselves they can never be truly worthy of the name of freemen.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

I don't care what people think of me. I don't even care what happens to me.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

I like being responsible for myself

I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

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.