Quotes About Self-governance

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Un pueblo honrado no necesita que el gobierno lo divierta, sino que lo deje divertirse. —Por

Freedom equals power.

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

I am a rank individualist.

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.