Quotes About Autonomy

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

Government is best which governs least

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

I don't bow down to the federal government.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system