Quotes About Self-governance

The key is to never let someone else tell you what to think.

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

National sovereignty can only be achieved after self-sovereignty.

You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

I'm aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don't owe any explanation to anyone.

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.

You have far more control over your life if you decide on your criterion by yourself.

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Leave people alone under a good structure and they will take care of things.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

The motto of my life is, 'The best advice is no advice at all.'

Don't bother setting up free republics or moving to a country which offers more liberties. Simply declare yourself to be an independent state. Do not involve and coerce others. This is the only way we will effect a proper revolution. Once each of us recognizes our own freedom and our own responsibility, then the chains that bind us will fall away.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

My life is my own, and the opinions of others don't interest me...

Free government works well in proportion as government is superfluous.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.