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Quotes About Self-governance

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand 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.
~ Salvador De Madriaga
you are the best authority on how to live your life.
~ Sanaya Roman
We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra...these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra
~ Mario Puzo
disregard other
~ Mark Steyn
What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?
~ Anthony Trollope
Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
~ Harry Browne
Don't let others influence your life... make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self.... That's lesson for self... learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life...
~ Debolina Bhawal
The individual is the best judge of what's right for the individual
~ John Stossel
over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".
~ John Stuart Mill
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
~ John Stuart Mill
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The issue is freedom. Freedom internally. Freedom domestically.
~ John W. Whitehead
You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
Dios nunca quiso que una mente humana estuviera bajo el dominio completo de otra.
~ Ellen G. White
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
~ Barbara Boxer
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause, He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
If there be an axiom evident to all, it is this, that liberty is a first necessity of existence.
~ baring gould sabine ii
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
~ Baruch Spinoza
no one is bound to live as another pleases, but is the guardian of his own liberty.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
~ Rand Paul
I'm grown as hell.
~ Da Brat
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?
~ George Orwell
It is high time you realised that you are of age, and may do as you please. Now, be off, and don't neglect to change your stockings!
~ Georgette Heyer
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
~ Lech Walesa