Quotes About Self-governance

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it's cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

The less government we have the better.

Power is best when it's distributed most broadly. That's what democracy means. That's what freedom means. The right to determine your individual destiny belongs in your hands, and no one else's.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

I just think that people should be in charge of their own bodies.

I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

It's my life and I prefer choosing my path. I don't follow anyone else.

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

I don't need adult supervision.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

Labour's mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

When you don't like the laws, you go somewhere they can't touch you. And then you make up some of your own.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

A man is either free or he is not.

There's no law on the internet. There's no voice of reason. It's every man for himself!

No man is competent to manage another.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.