Alone Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from…

— Frederic Bastiat

“There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Authority and example lead the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

— Seneca the Younger

Life shouldn't be about arbitrary power, for power's sake, but about respect, mutuality, decency.

— John Whaite

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of…

— Suzanne La Follette

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society…

— Charles Colson

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Many of us overvalue autonomy, the strength to stand alone, the capacity to act independently. Far too few of us pay attention to the…

— William Sloane Coffin