Ilana Mercer Quotes

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom is control in your own life.

In England, your life is your life.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

My freedom is more important than your good idea.

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm—as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

The individual is greater than the state.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other

… by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbors, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

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.

Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.