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 forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy 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
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
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
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
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
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
“...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination,… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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