Democracy is direct self-government over all the people…

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I only direct in self-defense.

— Mel Brooks

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

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse…

— Jeff Miller

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 self. Marxists…

— Murray Bookchin

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must…

— Elihu Root

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

To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is…

— E.C. Riegel

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

— Graham Cooke

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold…

— Robert H. Jackson

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.

— John Lothrop Motley

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

— William H. Douglas

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do.…

— Calvin Coolidge

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson