Quotes About Self-rule

The mad can make their own laws.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

All these men who say that the people must govern themselves, really govern the people.

When it does come they will taste for the first time the real meaning of freedom.

I am my own law–and the law of some others.

He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

beyond its own borders without encroaching on the autonomy of another.

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

Wake up and live your life on your own terms, you are a king in your own kingdom, a god in your own universe

Arab demands for self-rule in Jerusalem will eventually have to be taken into account. Kollek is certainly aware of this, and my guess is that he is prepared to consider reasonable proposals for a shared administration. The Arabs know that there is no meanness or arbitrariness in him. He has shown by his fairness that coexistence is possible and desirable. He is Israel's most valuable political asset.

The weak often have revolutionary sentiments; they think they would be well off if they were not ruled, and fail to perceive that they can rule neither themselves nor others.

It's harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

The best government is no government at all.

Freedom is such a gift.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own.

Freedom is such a gift.

Samobójstwo to ?wi?te prawo cz?owieka wolnego, ostateczna afirmacja wolno?ci.

There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the day of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man, as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of Nature.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.