Alan Keyes Quotes

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

The disciplined are free.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.