Self-government Quotes - Page 4

• The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Travel, Home, Race

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.

  Ted Nugent

  Jobs, Government, Self

  "Más de 10 preguntas con Ted Nugent. The Man, His Views, His Music & The New Album ShutUp & Jam". Entrevista con Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. 23 th Of July de 2014.

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• Nuestros Padres Fundadores comprendieron bien que el poder concentrado es enemigo de la libertad y de los derechos del hombre. Sabían que el experimento estadounidense de libertad individual, libre empresa y autogobierno republicano sólo podría tener éxito si el poder estaba ampliamente distribuido. Y puesto que en cualquier sociedad el poder social y político fluye del poder económico, vieron que la riqueza y la propiedad tendrían que estar ampliamente distribuidas entre los habitantes del país. La verdad de esta idea es evidente de inmediato.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Father

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• Los hombres deben vivir y trabajar en comunidades lo suficientemente pequeñas como para permitir un verdadero autogobierno y la asunción de responsabilidades personales, federadas en unidades más grandes de tal manera que no surja la tentación de abusar del gran poder.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Power, Men

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• I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.

  William McKinley

  Uplifting, Night, Light

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• Nuestros antepasados consideraron que los males del libre pensamiento eran más soportables que los males de la investigación o la supresión. Esto se debe a que las mentes reflexivas, audaces e independientes son esenciales para el autogobierno sabio y considerado.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Wise, Independent, Thoughtful

  Quoted by Z. Chafee Jr. in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955.

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• We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

  Julius Nyerere

  Oportunidad, Gobierno, Autonomía

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• The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Mean, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). "Calvin Coolidge, Sus ideales de ciudadanía revelados a través de sus discursos y escritos".

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Ana Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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• He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Government, Self, Data

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.444, Macmillan

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• Las personas que no pueden refrenar sus bajos instintos, que no pueden tratarse unos a otros con civismo, no son capaces de autogobernarse... sin virtud, una sociedad sólo puede ser gobernada por el miedo, una verdad que los tiranos comprenden demasiado bien...

  Charles Colson

  Government, Self, Tyrants

  Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey (1999). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.373, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.320

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• The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Atheist, Government

  TV Series "The 700 Club", www.imdb.com. (1966- ).

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• The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Self, Liberty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.458

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• Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten the destruction of the best design for self-government yet devised by the minds of men. Its passage will mark one of the darkest days in history

  Strom Thurmond

  Hombres, Ser, Personas

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• Lo que Estados Unidos necesita es mantener su antiguo y bien trazado rumbo. Nuestro país fue concebido en la teoría del autogobierno local. Se ha dedicado por larga práctica a esa política sabia y benéfica. Es el principio básico de nuestro sistema de libertad. Es la mayor promesa para la libertad y el desarrollo del individuo. Su preservación merece todo el esfuerzo y todo el sacrificio que pueda costar.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wise, Country, Sacrifice

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• A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Race, Self

  Thomas Jefferson Andrew M. Allison (1983). "The Real Thomas Jefferson", Centro Nacional para la Constitución.

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• It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so. - Thomas Jefferson Too much of our emphases and struggle has simply been in terms of confrontation and not enough recognition of how much spiritual, moral force is involved in the people who are struggling.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Struggle, Thinking

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• I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Self, Issues

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.111, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach Christian self-government, the true source of liberty. These Scriptural principles were so instilled in the minds of our forefathers that they would fight and die for liberty. This divine fight, however, is not easily won our arch foe is ruthless in enslaving mankind.

  Richard S. Wheeler

  Christian, Father, School

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• La llegada del autogobierno al pueblo iraquí es un momento decisivo en su historia.

  Todd Akin

  Gobierno, Ser, Personas

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• Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

  Robert E. Lee

  Guerra, Hogar, Hombres

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• China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Government, Self

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• Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Government, Judging

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). "Los ensayos de Michel de Montaigne", Lane, Allen

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• Nadie, espero, puede dudar de mi deseo de ver... a toda la humanidad ejerciendo el autogobierno, y capaz de ejercerlo. Pero la cuestión no es lo que deseamos, sino lo que es factible.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.292, Algora Publishing

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