Quotes About Self-governance

Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act - it means that we don't need all those managers and CEO's, kings and generals. That we can trust people to govern themselves and make their own decisions.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

The ways of men have no power over us.

As prime minister, I would relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible, leaving people to cultivate their own personal prosperity and to govern their own affairs as directly as possible.

Our courts and law, our on-going experiment in self-governance, these parts of our social fabric are precious.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Working solo means you don't have to account for anybody else. You do it yourself, so you're not trying to please others as well as yourself; you're just trying to do the best you can.

I don't think we need a Washington-imposed solution.

I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much prefer bottom-up solutions.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.

Frankly, I love my independence too much to give it up.

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

We were free people. None of these officials actually were supposed to control us. But few seemed to realize that.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.