Quotes About Self-governing

He has no master here. He is an independent agent and pursues his own agenda.

We deserve to elect our own government.

emotionally autonomous existence.

But at the end of the day, I'm my own man, regardless of what my little brother does or what he did.

I don't like needing anyone for anything.

self-contained,

My happiness doesn't depend on somebody; it depends on me.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

do things because you think it's right not because others do.

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.

Remember, independence is freedom and without independence, then you can't claim to be free at all.

Our local communities, once vibrantly self-governing, have lost vital autonomy, as the Court has hemmed in their ability to police themselves and regulate their schools, all in the name of atoning for America's original sin of slavery but in fact harming black Americans more than helping them.

JOINING THE COURT in 1991, Clarence Thomas brought with him the framers' vision of free, self-governing citizens forging their own fate.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

I agree with everything he said about emotional independence which he listed as his most important item.