Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff Quotes

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

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.

I hope we shall never be disposed to offer to join the United States. They will display a great reluctance to take us but I believe we have a future of our own here.

Why can't you and I let the world run itself its own way?

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

They [Americans] were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created, people in the history of the world.

You want independence. Go ahead. You are not worth Russian blood or money.

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

At the end of the day, Israel is its own self-determining government.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Liberty is its own reward.

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

Like most people, I wanted and still want to live by my own rules.

I'm not gonna tell any man what he should do in life.

I don't give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.