Quotes About Self-governance

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

Seeking to ban things is as bossy as you can get.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

Be your own father, young man

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

People need freedom.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and if they will not adapt to me, I adapt to them. Montaigne, Of Presumption (1580)

The message of this book is not that every woman should read or watch pornography. It is that every woman should decide for herself.

The best way to live your life is not to depend on mine.

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Quotes. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Our First Amendment freedoms give us the right to think what we like and say what we please. And if we the people are to govern ourselves, we must have these rights even if they are misused by a minority.

There are no rules that require us to obey rules. If there were, there would have to be a rule for those rules, and so on.

nature allows no master over itself.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

No voy a ser la marioneta de nadie, mucho menos, de mí mismo.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

I never wanted to be in a gang. I didn't want to follow anybody's orders.