Quotes About Autonomy

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

The less government we have the better.

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

Those are governed best who are governed least.