Lyn Nofziger Quotes

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

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.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Civil liberty is the power of a civil society or state to govern itself by its own discretion or by laws of its own making, without being subject to the impositions of any power in appointing and directing which the collective body of the people have no concern and over which they have no control

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it.

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

At the core of our American value system is individual freedom.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.