We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us… — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
“Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Chief Justice Roberts put it best during his recent confirmation hearings. And he said, and I quote, "The framers… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that… — Charlie Pierce 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… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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