Individual Quotes

When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.