Quotes About Self-governance

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire

Education is a public good that builds the capacity of a nation to wisely govern itself, and promotes equal opportunity.

I know that I am free because I alone am responsible for everything that I do.

So we let him act on his own

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Uniquely in the history of the world, Americans in the late eighteenth century constituted themselves as a people and as a nation in a series of epic and self-conscious acts of democratic self-invention. In 1776, thirteen British North American colonies renounced their common parent and created what would later become the world's mightiest power.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Depend on no one else to give you what you want

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

I like to control my own personal life.