Quotes about Self-determination

I don't I don't really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It's all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it's what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else's opinion, they can kick rocks.

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).

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.