Max Lucado Quotes

Not even my parents know how I vote.

To be confronted as you exit the polling place is really a matter of if you have the time, if you have the inclination to speak to a stranger, and if you want to divulge what is a very sacred, private matter - the way that you just voted.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

I certainly do believe in monogamy. I don't believe that it's for everyone. I don't believe that marriage is for everyone. So much of life is begging to be chosen how it wants to be lived. Much more than most of us realize.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

Those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right" or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't." To do so would be to strip you completely of your greatest gift - the opportunity to do as you please.

I'd rather die my way than live yours.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

My vote is my secret.

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.