Samuel West Quotes

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

The perception of the right of every man to do pretty much as he pleases…. [which will produce] a general profligacy and corruption such as this country has never known.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.

It is a risky step to interfere with the most intimate details of other people's lives while loudly claiming liberty for yourself.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

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

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

Liberty begets license.

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

A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one - at least no one other than the participants - is harmed by it.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.