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83 Self-government quotes by 56 unique authors

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country,… — Jeff Miller
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Grace Lee Boggs
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great… — James A. Garfield
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… — Calvin Coolidge
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what… — Thomas Jefferson
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the… — Michel de Montaigne
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with… — Henry A. Kissinger
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question… — Gerald Holton
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold… — Robert E. Lee
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world. — Prince Philip
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of… — Dick Thornburgh
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....… — Calvin Coolidge
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
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 are not fighting… — Jefferson Davis
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation. — Unknown Author
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. — Dora Russell
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.… — Thomas Jefferson
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. — Cass Sunstein
The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's… — Gary North
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so… — William H. Wharton
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Calvin Coolidge

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