Quotes About Self-rule

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

If you don't allow freedom, then you can't have freedom.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Anarchy doesn't mean without rules but without rulers; without masters

Since I am devoted to my own freedom, I didn't think it just to deny other people theirs; and a basic freedom must be to be bossed by your own kind, not by foreigners.

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

Rebellion never gives life. Self-rule never brings freedom. So grace has worked to rescue me from me, so that I can know the true freedom of serving him.

He placed himself under broken and unjust human rule in order to liberate us from self-rule and transform us into people who celebrate and willingly submit to his rule.

D had formed the committee a few months before, part of a new effort to combat the old problem of just who had a right to Kenya, and why. White settlers had always been keen on self-rule, which amounted to something more like total domination of the territory.

Yet am I king over myself, and rule The torturing and conflicting throngs within. - Prometheus Unbound