Quotes About Self-governance

The calm guy, having learned how to govern himself, knows the way to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his non secular energy, and sense that they could examine of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man turns into, the greater is his achievement, his have an impact on, his strength for accurate.

There is absolutely no reason to suppose that white people are better equipped to frame the laws by which I am to be governed than I am. It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs of my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

You are free to do anything you want, provided you are not a beneficiary of others effort.

Do not seek to rule any man other than yourself.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

It may sound funny to others, but there is a sense of freedom when I am able to live on my own, and as per my own set standards.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

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

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

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

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.