Quotes About Self-governance

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

I think that most people are natural libertarians.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's approval dictate your actions

place where we are responsible for our own actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment

Thou art free!

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control. That seem to hit a note in you?

Because you can't control other people. You can't be responsible for somebody else.

And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.

No one is a cup for another to drink from.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if... moral sentiment is missing.

Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.

Without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.

Democ'acy gives every man The right to be his own oppressor...