“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
“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
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government. — Dwight Morrow Copy Share Image
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the… — Edward Abbey 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
[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
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
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people… — Mitch Daniels 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
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 emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
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
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. — Theodore Parker 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
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
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