Quotes about Self-governance

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

We should be men first, and subjects afterward.

In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.