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Self Government Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
- What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
- Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This…
- Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past…
- We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....…
- No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted…
- Self-government means self support.
- We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the…
- The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It…
More Self Government Quotes
- The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. — Todd Akin
- The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson
- Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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
- 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
- the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson
- Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run… — Abraham Lincoln
- Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond
- It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Thomas Jefferson
- A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson