Quotes About Self-governance

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.

I have no interest in being told what to do.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

It began in 1784, when people in the western territories of North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) became disgusted with Tidewater control. Their solution was pure Borderlander: they created their own sovereign State of Franklin on nobody's permission but their own. They drafted a constitution that prohibited lawyers, clergy, and doctors from running for office, set up a government in the village of Greeneville, and passed laws making apple brandy, animal skins, and tobacco legal tender.

Wicca puts the responsibility for running our lives back where it belongs – in our own hands.

Readers are born free and ought to remain free.

Libertarian is someone who says, 'you can be as liberal or conservative as you want to be, just don't force others to be like you.

Everyone is a puppet, but there are no puppet-masters.

Calitatea ta uman? nu trebuie s? depind? de a celorlal?i

After 3, a body has a mind of its own.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.

The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?

We should, through civic referendums, determine our own pathways and political status after 2047, because in this lies the future of our democratic movement. 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 have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

Once you begin to feel you are making a go of it on your own—that you are making moves and thinking thoughts which seem to have originated within you—it is not possible for you to believe you are anything but your own master.

That government is best which governs least.

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.