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Quotes about Self-governance

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
- Herbert Hoover
If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
- James Madison
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- Mortimer Adler
Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.
- Ayn Rand
Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.
- Ayn Rand
What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.
- Eugene Peterson
We should be men first, and subjects afterward.
- Henry David Thoreau
In any organization, someone must be the boss. If it's even just one person, you've got to be the boss of yourself.
- Malcolm X
No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.
- Michael Hyatt
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.
- Ayn Rand
It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
- Ayn Rand
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.
- Ayn Rand