Quotes about Individual

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol -- cross or crescent or whatever -- that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.