Quotes about Self-determination
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.
— George W. Bush
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller
People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.
— JM Coetzee
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
— William James
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
— Herbert Hoover
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
— Walt Disney
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
— Ronald Reagan
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
— Napoleon Hill
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
— St. John Chrysostom
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
— Alexander Hamilton
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
— Michael Novak