Autonomous Governance Quotes

Bottom up democracy is hard for our leaders to accept. It is cultural. Chinese culture is based on the family. The daddy makes all the big decisions for everyone. It is top down.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

The way a President runs his business ought to remain highly idiosyncratic.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

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.

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

Not surprisingly, in most Sunni regions there has little appetite for free U.S.-sponsored elections.

The District of Columbia has every right to pass their own laws, and House Republicans should stay out of it.