Quotes About Individual

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

Every man is the hero of his own song.

It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.

What a man thinks is no concern of the government.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

No man or woman can live another's fate