Quotes About Individualism

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

When I asked for help, no one is there except me. "Helping yourself is a great help you ever get it from anyone".

The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.