John McAfee Quotes

I have some fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering.

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

The test of a good colonial policy is that it shall prepare colonies for independent self—government.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

If you give people an opportunity for self government and freedom, most people will reach for freedom

The elemental human desire for self-government knows no geographical or racial boundaries.

I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for …, to wit a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

All my people want is independence under a protectorate.

We wanted to make it quite clear and beyond any possibility of doubt or question that the British Government and the British people desire the Indian peoples to have full self-government

In this country I am my own master and may do as I please

The American revolution was a struggle for home rule but also for who should rule at home.

I'm not going to impose my vision on the people of Puerto Rico.

We want Hongkongers to decide the future of Hong Kong.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.