Karen Selick Quotes

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

Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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

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

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.

There is nothing as important as freedom and independence.

It is our purpose to respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live and to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

Nor let it be supposed that any people is likely to remain content with semi-independence [autonomy]. It may welcome this as a first step, a partial concession, but not for long. There is no logical stopping place, no halfway house which will make a permanent home on the road to equality, and those who have once got well started on that road grow increasingly impatient and resent every effort to delay them on their way to their final goal.

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

Belize is not ready for self-government.

I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.

I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

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

I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.