Self Governance Quotes

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" "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" "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "Freedom is control in your own life" "Russia is not a country that can exist without sovereignty." "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act" "An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people" "If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within" "Liberty means responsibility " "If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved" "Anger is a brief madness; govern your mind, for unless it obeys it commands"