Government Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— George W. Bush

The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”

— T.F. Hodge

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

— John F. Kennedy

“When governments control everything, your perceived or glorified wealth is just an illusion. Attaining true generational wealth requires working rules of law, disaster-proof property…

— Olawale Daniel

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by…

— Daniel Webster

Self-government means self support.

— Calvin Coolidge

Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public…

— Peter Maurer

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

— James Madison

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

— John C. Calhoun