Quotes about Self-governance

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if... moral sentiment is missing.

The calm guy, having learned how to govern himself, knows the way to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his non secular energy, and sense that they could examine of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man turns into, the greater is his achievement, his have an impact on, his strength for accurate.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.