Quotes About Self-governance

Do for yourself or do without.

Independence is happiness.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

Self-reliance is very excellent, but as for independence, there is no such thing.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah

You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and you cut along and make it your own way.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.