Quotes About Self-rule

I don't make any rules.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

nature allows no master over itself.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

The less government we have the better.

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

When you don't like the laws, you go somewhere they can't touch you. And then you make up some of your own.

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.