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Quotes About Self-governance

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.
~ Olivier Martinez
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
~ Pythagoras
It's hard to pay your own way when you're used to someone else picking up the tab.
~ Cory Doctorow
Form your own autonomous group, answering to no power but your own, and chase down freedom for yourselves, if your representatives will not do if for you- since they cannot do it for you.
~ Crimethinc
From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master...
~ Walt Whitman
No pedir nada de nadie te da un auténtico sentimiento de libertad.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
~ Wendell Berry
It has always been the Rule of my Life, not to justify any Words or Actions because they are mine.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
~ Chief Joseph
Özgürlük her ÅŸeyden üstündür (Das Attentat, p. 79).
~ Harry Mulisch
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
~ Haruki Murakami
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
~ le guin ursula k vii
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
~ Lech Walesa
I will be mistress of myself.
~ Jane Austen
Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
~ James Brown
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
~ Sonny Perdue
That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
~ Gary Johnson
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
~ Bobby Seale
Government should be democratic and 'carry out for them all, and only, what is needed to be done for the people as a whole. It must not interfere with what the people can do for themselves in their own centres.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
the type of Home Rule which would be agreeable to Britain was going to be very far short of the All-Ireland Republic which the Sinn Feiners had declared for themselves at the beginning of the year.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
si te reporta mucho, si te permite actuar con autonomía, si
~ Timothy Ferriss
Swaraj, a term usually associated with Mahatma Gandhi, can be translated as "self-rule." Think of it as charting your own path.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Without Their Permission.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Hungry people mindlessly follow orders. You feed them enough and right away they demand self-government.
~ Todd Tucker