Quotes About Self-governing

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

I don't want to depend on anyone.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

In other words, everyone in the panopticon knew they could be watched at all times, so in the end, only minimal watching actually needed to happen. The panopticon would create a sense of paranoia so pervasive that its inhabitants became practically self-governing.

I'm not a follower.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

declared their independence.

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation and the end of our democratically elected Parliament as the supreme law making body in the United Kingdom.

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

The State is born of the conquest of other people. The self-governing community is a creation of the people themselves in the process of overthrowing the State.

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

Furthermore, the citizen contributed to this free self-governing community in not one but two ways. First, he practiced the virtues of the free man, including cultivating and growing the fruits of his economic freedom—something the average Florentine merchant or shopkeeper certainly understood. Second, he contributed by becoming an active part of civic life.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

I've been my own man. Ain't nothing richer than that

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Our State Constitution says that 'the people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State.' Working together, we will do everything in our power to prevent other States from violating this principle by imposing arcane sales and use tax obligations on New Hampshire businesses.

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.

The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...