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Quotes About Self-rule

Freedom equals power.
~ Aurora Berill
I am a rank individualist.
~ Arthur Keith
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
~ Bao Dai
Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.
~ Ann Widdecombe
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be left alone.
~ Mark Bowden
disregard other
~ Mark Steyn
over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".
~ John Stuart Mill
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
~ John Stuart Mill
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The issue is freedom. Freedom internally. Freedom domestically.
~ John W. Whitehead
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?
~ George Orwell
Mais, à tout prendre, les animaux trouvaient plaisir à ces célébrations. Ils étaient confortés dans l'idée d'être leurs propres maîtres, après tout, et ainsi d'Å"uvrer à leur propre bien.
~ George Orwell
you are the authority figure in your life.
~ Martha N. Beck
If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
~ Michele Bachmann
To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.
~ Ayn Rand
I love liberty, I hate equality.
~ John Randolph of Roanoke
Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.
~ Stephen Breyer
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
~ Jalal Talabani
If you want to rule your life with obligations to other people, that's you.
~ Bich Minh Nguyen
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
~ H.L. Mencken
She was taking her own liberties with him. Was this liberation?
~ Sujata Massey
You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.
~ Bohumil Hrabal