"Individuality is the aim of political liberty.  By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man.  He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."  - James Fenimore Cooper (1838)

"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag.  All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."  - Albert Einstein (1933)

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.  What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."  - Henry David Thoreau