Self-government Quotes · Page 4

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't…

— Paul Harvey

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

— Thomas Jefferson

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

— Thomas Jefferson

May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.”

— T.F. Hodge

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

— Paul Harvey

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

— Anita Roddick

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

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...

— Richard Henry Lee

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against…

— Lord Acton

I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day…

— Jefferson Davis

The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great…

— Gary North

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

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

— Robert A. Agresta

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it…

— Anne Carson

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

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

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

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

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

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by…

— William Booth

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all…

— Thomas Jefferson