Self Government Quotes
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There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.
— Graham Cooke
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.
— Eric Robert Morse
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
— John F. Kennedy
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
— Camille Paglia
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
— Cass Sunstein
We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
— Anita Roddick
The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none
— Sunday Adelaja
The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.
— Amit Kalantri
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
— Michael Ledeen
Freedom comes to those who don't apply for it.
— T.F. Hodge
The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
— Richard Engel
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
— John Stuart Mill
We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
— Bryant McGill
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.
— Albert J. Beveridge
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
— Jonathan Swift
People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.
— Scott Cook
Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others.
— Bertrand Russell
The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.
— Bill O'Reilly
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
— James Bovard
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
— Herbert Hoover
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.
— Lynne Stewart
In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.
— Walter Schellenberg
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself
— Michel De Montaigne
It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.
— Robert A. Agresta
Local self-government ... is the life-blood of liberty.
— John Lothrop Motley
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
— Dwight Morrow
The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.
— Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
— Neil Steinberg
Belize is not ready for self-government.
— John McAfee
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
— Theodore Parker
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
— G.K. Chesterton
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 self - government.
— Thomas Jefferson
May it be to the world ... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
— Thomas Jefferson
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
— George W. Bush
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
— Jefferson Davis
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
— Todd Akin
I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.
— Prince Philip
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
— William H. Douglas
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
— Dora Russell
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
— Millicent Fenwick
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
Support for the arts merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! — Robert A. Heinlein
The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
— Thomas Jefferson
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
— Alan Dershowitz
And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
