Quotes About Self-governing

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I am no parasite.

I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.

I'm always independent. No boss.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Free yourself to be free."

I don't care what other people are doing.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

My brain has a mind of its own.

Freedom is the absence of influence.

Do not expect anything from any one.

is not altogether a matter of fanfaronade when the American citizen calls himself a "sovereign." A member of a free democracy is, in a sense, a sovereign. He

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

Freedom is control in your own life.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Seen from this perspective, the sexual revolution is to the family what Communism is to the market. Both entail statist assaults on core institutions of civil society, leading to human misery that the state is not equipped to put right. In both cases, what results from the erosion of a core institution is a citizenry ill-equipped to be self-governing; accordingly, state power inevitably grows.

I've always been very independent; I take care of myself.

le monde] n'a pas besoin d'être gouverné ; en fait, il ne devrait pas être gouverné