Governing Quote by Charles James Fox

“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised. He was…

— Ben Macintyre

“In his anxiety to be just to others he was often prepared to be unjust to himself. He was always ready to sacrifice his…

— Aldous Huxley

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

— Jane Austen

“if the nation were to be stable, individual rights had to be exercised according to rules that all people could understand and trust.”

— Condoleezza Rice

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who…

— Thomas Paine

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the…

— Robert Jordan

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

— J.R. Ward

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor,…

— William O. Douglas

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

— Charles Dickens

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own…

— William Hazlitt