Quotes About Self-governing

You are really and truly and completely free.

I'm an individual, and an individual can't follow and doesn't want to lead.

I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Being independent is everything. That's all I know.

There is no such thing as being too independent.

I've been independent all of my life.

I'm very independent.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

Well, I'm an independent person.

It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.

6. Strive for undependence. Begin examining the ways we are dependent, emotionally and financially, on the people around us.

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

Hey, it's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll you for free... I am no one's son.

What is freedom? It is the sum total of freedoms. To be free, under one's own responsibility, to think and act, to speak and write, to work and trade, to teach and learn, that alone is to be free.

Conservatives believe that a self-governing society depends on individuals taking responsibility for their actions, and those of their family and community. They deride others, especially American liberals, who fall short of this standard, who blame anything other than themselves for personal transgressions or failures.

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you're truly free.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

i am a noncontingent human being

I'm my own label.

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.