Quotes about Autonomy
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
- John Adams
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
- John Maxwell
And this is the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, and dared to try what he was able to do.
- John Calvin
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
- John Calvin
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
- WP Kinsella
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
- Ronald Reagan
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
- Ronald Reagan
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
- Ronald Reagan
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln