Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government. — Robert A. Agresta Copy Share Image
There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government. — Dwight Morrow Copy Share Image
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation. — William H. Douglas Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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