Best liberty & self-government Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.”

Giving Should Self Government Values Liberty Rights Giving Up Safety Unions Determined Sovereignty Self-government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.”

Self Government Ability Liberty Moral Discipline Self Control Self Discipline Grounded Self-government Discipline And Self Control

Author:Alan Keyes

“There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.”

Self Government Order Liberty Morality Goods Stability Self-government Constitutionalism

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.”

“You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.”

People Self Government Liberty Land Starving Self-government

Author:Fiorello H. La Guardia

“May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”

World May Self Government Freedom Liberty Security Blessing Assuming Superstitions Declaration Of Independence Self-government Deism

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”

Men May Results Liberty Masters Experiments Trusted No Fear American Revolution Have No Fear Self-government

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

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