Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation. — William H. Douglas 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
The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity. — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
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
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge 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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth 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
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
Brandon McCaw did a portrait on a start ofhe period was marked by an astonishing breadth and vitality in cultural life for… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
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