Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. — Michael Ledeen Copy Share Image
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? — James Madison Copy Share Image
We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. — Fiorello H. La Guardia 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
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
I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is… — William Ralph Inge 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
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
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
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
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
I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a… — Ted Nugent 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
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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