Unrestricted Self-Governance Quotes

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Liberty is a virgin whose veil it is not lawful to lift

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

A liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.