Quotes About Self-governance

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

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

My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man in charge of the University's entire collection -- is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.

Since I am devoted to my own freedom, I didn't think it just to deny other people theirs; and a basic freedom must be to be bossed by your own kind, not by foreigners.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

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

Only by demonstrating that men could govern themselves in amicable union could Americans fulfill "our destiny in the world.

The less specific a prescription the more substance it takes to move the organism, the less efficient the herb or formula, and the more likely we are to force the organism to change, rather than gently stimulating it to renewed self-governance.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

Now I want you to consider: any legal adult here can do anything he wishes with the only restriction being that no one else gets hurt.

Everyone wants "freedom," she decided, but the more free one was, the more responsibility one had.

world!" "A republic is undoubtedly the way forth for mankind," Jefferson agrees. "But will men be willing to govern themselves, or is it more convenient to hand the reins of power to someone who promises free bread and wine?

I am free, free in my work, because I do whatever I want. If I don't do something today I will do it tomorrow. I don't have a boss, I am the boss of my own life. I have kept my freedom and I have fought for my freedom.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.

The spontaneous action of the people themselves alone can create liberty.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.