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" "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power" "Common sense will tell us that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us is of all others the most improper to defend us" "Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." "Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves " "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" "The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them" "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "Freedom is control in your own life" "Russia is not a country that can exist without sovereignty."