Self Government Quotes

Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty.

~ A.e. Samaan

Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first.  Secondly, it is to teach them.  Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

~ Gordon S. Wood

...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.

~ T.f. Hodge