Quotes About Self-governance

I'm tired of everyone deciding what's for my own good!

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

Ne zevk, ne ün, ne iktidar; özgürlük, yaln?z özgürlük.

No el placer, no la gloria, no el poder: la libertad, únicamente la libertad.

Não o prazer, não a glória, não o poder: a liberdade, unicamente a liberdade

Everybody has the right to decide their own fate.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

I just want to do things on my own terms as much as possible.

the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should be governed, or as the Americans came to say, whether they as free men could govern themselves.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.

But a long time ago I made me a rule: I let people do what they want to do.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.