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Quotes about Self-governance

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind allows itself to be governed.
- Andy Andrews
No man is free who is not a master of himself.
- Robin Sharma
Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
- Tony Robbins
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.
- Anonymous
No one in the planet can ever tell anyone else what they should do. For example, I do not go around the world trying to say somebody needs to be democratic.
- Martin Luther King III
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
- John Maxwell
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
- Publilius Syrus
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
- Ronald Reagan
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
- William Wordsworth