individuality

Albert Gallatin to Alexander Addison, Oct 7, 1789, MS. in N.Y. Hist. Soc.-A.G. Papers. The whole of that Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. . . . It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to prove what I believe, I can't. You know them to be true but you could spend a whole lifetime without being able to prove them. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.