Quotes about Self-governance
The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.
— Randy Alcorn
People need freedom.
— Joyce Meyer
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
— Walt Whitman
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.
— James Madison
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.
— James Madison
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson