Quotes About Individual

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.