Quotes About Self-rule

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Stenditi al sole. Abdica, e sii il re di te stesso.

No tener que obedecer es dicha mayor que mandar en toda la Tierra».

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

the greatest of penalties is being ruled by a worse man if one is not willing to rule oneself. It is because they fear this, in my view, that decent men rule, when they do rule; and at that time they proceed to enter on rule, not as though they were going to something good, or as though they were going to be well off in it; but they enter on it as a necessity and because they have no one better than or like themselves to whom to turn it over.

GIVE ME LIBERTY …

No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.

so democracy means more than just going to vote. Democracy means that people should truly have the opportunity to govern their own affairs. The

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Dear Feliks . . . I consider that we must as soon as possible move to a more "liberal" form of Soviet rule: fewer repressions, more legality, more discussion, more self-rule (under the party's guidance naturaliter [Bukharin liked to use Latin]), etc. . . . That is why I sometimes speak out against proposals to widen the rights of the GPU, etc. Understand, dear Feliks (you know how much I love you) that you have no reasons whatsoever to suspect me of any

I hate being told what to do! Especially by myself!

Lippmann later called society "too big, too complex" for the average person to comprehend, since most citizens were "mentally children or barbarians. . . . Self-determination [is] only one of the many interests of a human personality." Lippmann urged that self-rule be subordinated to "order," "rights," and "prosperity.

If any should like the World I have made, and be willing to be my Subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such, I mean in their Minds, Fancies or Imaginations; but if they cannot endure to be Subjects, they may create Worlds of their own, and Govern themselves as they please.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

Freedom is self-determination.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

The object is freedom.

The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.