Self Governance Quotes

"A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself" "The government is us; we are the government, you and I." "He who cannot obey himself will be commanded" "Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself." "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government." "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." "The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life"