The proposal of the Polish Commission that we should place 2,100,000 Germans under the control of a people of a different religion and which has never proved its capacity for stable self-government throughout its history, must, in my judgment, lead sooner or later to a new war in the East of Europe.

Self-government is the lesson of lessons they most earnestly desire to teach their children.

Your principles of local self-government, gentlemen, were hitherto professed on the continent of Europe chiefly by us Hungarians: now they will conquer the world,a new victory for humanity.

Now, in respect to municipal self-government, Hungary and all those different provinces which are now opposed to the Austrian empire,if indeed an empire which only rests upon the goodwill of a foreign master, can be said to exist, or even to vegetate,all those different provinces are absorbed by Austria.

We are responsible to our country and to the glorious cause of self-government for the preservation of so great a good.

Thus the most effectual guards were provided against abuses and dangers of every kind which human ingenuity could devise, and the whole people rendered more competent to the self-government which by an heroic exertion they had acquired.

And the great principle of self-government is to be the basis, to which the whole structure of discipline under which they may be placed, should be adapted.

That self-government, especially as far as church matters were concerned, they were stoutly bent upon maintaining and extending.

For not less than three hundred years after all England had been united under one king, these shires retained their self-government almost as completely as the several states of the American Union.

As for the theory of self-government, it will muddle down here, as in the three great archetypes of the experiment, into a puling, miserable failure!"

Self-government, 243.

With the system of self-government has grown the habitnot of tolerance precisely, for Englishmen when in earnest are as little in love with tolerance as Frenchmen or any other people, butof giving way to the will of the majority, so long as they remain a majority.

For two or three generations the ordinary English Liberal postponed any decision on Indian politics, because he believed that we were educating the inhabitants for self-government, and that in due time they would all have a vote for an Indian parliament.

Amongst a populace hopelessly divided by race, untrained in self-government and cursed with a natural twist for lawlessness only equalled by its hatred of work, Diaz stands for a tyranny certainly, but for a unified orderly tyranny, preferable, one might think, to a myriad petty outlawries.

The Gauls were not wanting in intelligence or dexterity, but being too free to go quietly under a master's hand, and too barbarous for self-government, carried away, as they were, by the interest or passion of the moment, they could not long act either in concert or with sameness of purpose.

The old man went on, anxiously, "Old Mr. Howth says that is the end of all self-governments: from anarchy to despotism, he says.

My apologies to him for withdrawing the veil and for maintaining that such occurrences as those in question demonstrate complete and utter unfitness for self-government on the part of those who brought them about!

A system of self-government should be introduced into our school.

Moreover, under our local self-government, under our decentralized system, nobody is above even a town officer, or a State or city official at the head of his department, however small it be, except the courts.

Local self-government preserved in municipal law.

It will teach them self-control and self-government, and will accustom them to submit to the majoritythat lesson which, of all others, it is important for a republican to learn.

Thank God, the very power to feel bears with it the power of self-government, and is proof of reason.

To say that the people or their Government are incompetent or not to be trusted with the custody of their own money in their own Treasury, provided by themselves, but must rely on the presidents, cashiers, and stockholders of banking corporations, not appointed by them nor responsible to them, would be to concede that they are incompetent for self-government.

After an existence of near three-fourths of a century as a free and independent Republic, the problem no longer remains to be solved whether man is capable of self-government.

We have enjoyed the blessings of our system of well-regulated self-government for near three-fourths of a century, and can properly appreciate its value.