Napoleon Hill Quotes

In England, your life is your life.

It's my life and my death.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

Human beings have a right to change their consciousness, and it is unconscionable and absolutely wrong for any government or any person to stand in the way of someone choosing to change their consciousness.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.