Autonomous Quote by Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between…

— Vaclav Havel

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations,…

— Harri Holkeri

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

— Karl Liebknecht

“Our hope is a word and world of proud, independent nations that embrace their duties, seek friendship, respect others, and make common cause in…

— Donald Trump

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties,…

— James Madison

“An education is truly “fitted for freedom” only if it is such as to produce free citizens, citizens who are free not because of…

— Martha Nussbaum

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

— John Stuart Mill

“The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”

— Thomas Jefferson

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values…

— Anonymous

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

— John F. Kennedy

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their…

— Thomas More

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right…

— Peter Fraser