Capable Quote by Charles Colson

There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in…

— Alan Keyes

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

— John F. Kennedy

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

— John F. Kennedy

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

— Thomas Jefferson

“It seems to be difficult if not impossible for human beings to avoid thinking of government as mystical entity with a nature and a…

— H.L. Mencken

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render…

— James Madison

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

— Anita Roddick

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often…

— Wayne Dyer

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations…

— John Adams

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

— Robert A. Agresta