Self-government Quotes · Page 2

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

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

— Anita Roddick

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

— Jefferson Davis

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

— Prince Philip

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

— Richard Henry Lee

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

— James Madison

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers…

— James A. Garfield

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of…

— Robert E. Lee

A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation…

— Francis Galton

A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I currently perform the most important political duties an American has the responsibility to perform - I experiment in self-government on a…

— Ted Nugent

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

— Michael Ledeen

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

— Graham Cooke

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

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

— Thomas Jefferson

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

— Dwight Morrow

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

— William H. Douglas

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Thomas Jefferson

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment…

— Ted Nugent

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

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which…

— William O. Douglas