Quotes About Self-governance

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

The object is freedom.

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

Do as much as you can on your own. You can't delegate your destination.

You have to make decisions for yourself before you can make decisions with someone.

Don't count on anyone. Find your own ways to figure out your problems.

He has proved without a doubt that he doesn't need me. And if it is the last thing I ever do, I am going to prove to him, without a doubt, that I don't need him either.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

He who reigns within himself, and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Anarchy doesn't mean without rules but without rulers; without masters

So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar¦ But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.

Freedom is from within.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.