Quotes About Self-governance

Our good reputation will be restored only through the removal of occupation within our nation.

True independence is freedom in a nutshell.

The ultimate goal of all personal and national authority is freedom

You must first be a king of your own personal kingdom. If you can't lead that kingdom on your own two feet, you can't lead a bigger kingdom

Without intellectual privacy, then, we risk a world in which new political ideas are hard to come by, and in which we and our fellow citizens are less able to come to terms with what we believe. Without intellectual privacy, meaningful democratic self-government itself is at risk.

The secret of good government is to let men alone.

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.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.

This requires a great deal of emotional independence.

I understood the connexion between his idea, and my idea that no one had any rights over me, that there wasn't anyone I was answerable to except myself.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master - any master - then let the rest of us know, will you.

We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from.

The child must be given activities that encourage independence, and he must not be served by others in acts he can learn to perform himself.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

As an individual free to create the world we live in, I carry the cause for how my boss and others respond to and treat me. Once I understand this and stop trying to control them, I can get on with the business of acting on what matters.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”