Quotes About Self-governance

I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

I am my own law–and the law of some others.

Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.

He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.

Don't concern yourself about anybody. Just do what you think is right.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

I don't want to run your life, I don't know how to run your life, I don't have the authority to run your life, and the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

I always support secession, and I think that the founders made a mistake by not having that in the Constitution…

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Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

Que as pernas também são pessoas, apenas inferiores aos braços, e valem de si mesmas, quando a cabeça não as rege por meio de idéias. As minhas chegaram ao pé do muro.

Rules are made for people, not people for rules

He who conquers self conquers all.

Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

may be of comparatively little consequence how a man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within.  The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.  Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be freed by any mere changes of masters

What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I'm going to take care of this little matter myself, since you obviously won't.

While freedom can be a state of nature, liberty requires a degree of self-discipline. It is the essence of self-governance.

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

The best government is no government at all.