Quotes about Self-governance

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

People need freedom.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Quotes. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.