There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination,… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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