“God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.” MenSelfReasonGovernmentDemocracyRightsDivineConscienceAnd LoveMakersSelf-governmentInalienable RightsTruth And Love Author:John Dryden
“[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.” GivingShouldSelfGovernmentValuesLibertyRightsGiving UpSafetyUnionsDeterminedSovereigntySelf-government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“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.” PeopleIfsMenWellsSelfCountryWisdomGovernmentPoliticalFatherPoliticsIndividualSocialWealthLibertyEnemyEconomySawsRightsEconomicRepublicanSucceedUnderstoodFlowPropertyInsightExperimentsLiberalismEnterpriseFoundingOur Founding FathersPolitical PowerFree EnterpriseIndividual LibertySelf-governmentEconomic Power Author:Ronald Reagan
“The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.” MeanSelfHandsGovernmentIndividualRightsEqualLipsSovereigntyEqual RightsSelf-governmentEmblems Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.” ThinkingSelfRealityGovernmentRunningFormLawLostNationsEnjoyOpinionRightsJudgingElectionSubstanceHandfulSelf-governmentPersonal Opinions Author:Charles Colson