Jesse Ventura Quotes

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

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

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

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.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

Get out of people's way and let them be who they are. If they make a mistake, fine, that's on them.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be made to defend their right to do it.

As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.