Quotes About Autonomy

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Being free is a state of mind.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."