Best Self-government Sayings

83 Self-government quotes by 56 unique authors

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. — Kwame Nkrumah
Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another people… — Roger Casement
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them… — Thomas Jefferson
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe… — Ronald Reagan
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic,… — Barack Obama
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and… — Robert H. Jackson
I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way.… — William McKinley
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into… — Mahatma Gandhi
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint. — John F. Kennedy
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of… — William Ralph Inge
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is… — Abraham Lincoln
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study… — Elihu Root
We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by… — Stafford Cripps
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are… — Stafford Cripps
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
Self-government means self support. — Calvin Coolidge
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… — Calvin Coolidge
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few… — Fulton J. Sheen
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and… — John Dryden
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin
If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for… — Velupillai Prabhakaran
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.… — Mitch Daniels
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… — Calvin Coolidge
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem… — Anne Carson
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable… — Jonathan Franzen

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