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Belize is not ready for self-government.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
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Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.
Bill Kristol /
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah / Former President For Life
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Quiet
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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
Herbert Hoover / 31St U.s. President
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Electorate
Self
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Succeed
Instructed
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We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.
John C. Calhoun / Former United States Representative
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All People
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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
Todd Akin / Former U.s. Representative
Government
Advent
People
Self
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History Moment People
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Watershed
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Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.
Josh Hawley /
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
Dora Russell / Author
Children
Council
Innovation
School
Self
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Young Children
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The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.
Linda Colley / Historian
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Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
Michael Ledeen /
Population
Self-government
Well Educated
Fairly
Arabs
Centuries
Iranians
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I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.
Newt Gingrich / Former U.s. Representative
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Army
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Serving
Battlefield
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The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.
H. W. Brands /
Founders
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Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.
Herbert Hoover / 31St U.s. President
Cooperation
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Agencies
Imply
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Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin / President Of Russia
Democracy
Realisation
Self-government
Standards
Own
National
Outside
Russian
Russian People
Traditions
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Another Man
Despotism
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White
Also
Governs
Himself
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Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.
Michael Gove / British Politician
Benefits
Democratic
Japan
Nations
Norway
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South Africa
Switzerland
Africa
Brought
Scores
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Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.
Mike Pence / Governor Of Indiana
Bad Mood
Civility
Conservative
Heavy
Mood
Radio
Self-government
Used
Years
Years Ago
Mood Bad Bad Mood
Bad
Believed
Show
Doses
Essential
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I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
William H. Wharton /
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Connected
Incapable
Insecure
Our Lives
Self
Self-government
Demonstrate
Fortunes
Liberties
Mexicans
Proceed
Wholly
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
Susan B. Anthony / Women's Rights Activist
Birth
Class
Color
Impunity
Individual
Race
Sacred
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Sex
Accident
Caste
Principle
Regardless
Violated
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It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.
Stafford Cripps / Politician
Government
British
Determined
India
Indian
Late
People
Self
Self-government
Too Late
Assure
British People
Indian People
Ordered
Rapid
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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick / United States Ambassador To The United Nations
American Foreign Policy
Appropriate
Compatible
Dignity
Foreign Policy
Human Dignity
Policy
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Well Being
Peace People Always
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The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.
Charlie Pierce /
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Commonwealth
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Minute
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Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.
Dick Thornburgh / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
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Approved
Congress
Constitution
Law
Puerto Rico
Representation
Residents
Rico
Self
Self-government
Supreme
Voting
Authorized
Internal
Local
Puerto
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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.
Stafford Cripps / Politician
Opportunity
Government
Attainment
Doubt
Nations
Self
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United Nations
Witness
Fullest
Pledged
Repeat
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That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
Jeff Miller / U.s. Representative
Loyalty
Government
Common
Common Good
Country
Depends
Diverse
Great Country
Regard
Self Confidence
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Together
Getting
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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.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Equality
China
Democracy
Livelihood
Problem
Real Freedom
Secure
Self-government
Solve
Within
Freedom Equality Democracy
Achieved
Complete
Foundations
Races
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It's a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country's chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution - and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died - is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.
Eric Metaxas / Author
Clinton
Genuine
Self-government
Supreme
Supreme Court
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
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America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?
Eric Metaxas / Author
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Based
Centuries
Nation
Possibly
Sacrifices
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There's every reason to think that whatever their political leanings, Americans will be highly receptive to numerous reforms designed to improve health, safety, economic security, environmental quality and democratic self-government - at least if those reforms do not eliminate their freedom of choice.
Cass Sunstein / Legal Scholar
Environmental
Economic Security
Receptive
Safety
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Eliminate
Reforms
Numerous
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To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics.
Edwin Meese / Attorney At Law
Active
Constitution
Participation
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Believers
Civic
Efforts
Experiment
Prevent
Restore
Trample
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All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Mitch Daniels / Former Governor Of Indiana
Independence
Men
Autonomous
Capacity
Core
Dignity
Enemy
Liberty
Men And Women
People
Self
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Faith Men Women
Rise
Enterprises
Faith Women Men
God-Given
Mortal
Ours
Pearl
Retain
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In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.
Chiang Kai-Shek / Former President Of The Republic Of China
Ancient
Assistance
China
Defined
Mutual
Organization
Personal Life
Protection
Self Control
Self-government
Applied
Clearly
Custom
Developed
Emphasized
Widespread
Local
Strictly
Regulations
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
Charlie Pierce /
Government
Commonwealth
Latter
Order
Produce
Self
Self-government
Concede
Conservatives
Everything Else
Refer
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