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Self governance Quotes

"Where annual elections end where slavery begins"

"Freedom is control in your own life"

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny."

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

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people"

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself"

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

"If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved"

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves "

"The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life"

"The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them"

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act"

"Russia is not a country that can exist without sovereignty."

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