Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

My life is not my own business.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

I am ready to do everything for the people, but nothing under compulsion by the people.

Liberty is not collective. It is personal.

Liberty is that principle of spontaneity, or self-determination, which constitutes us as agents, or which gives us a command over our actions, rendering them properly ours, and not effects of the operation of any foreign cause

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.