How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves and their children.
The Americans are the first people whom heaven has favored with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing forms of government under which they should live.
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.
Any nation's right to form a government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.... Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.
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.
In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government always means a government yet to come, and the case always is, that the people who are to live afterwards, have always the same right to choose a government for themselves, as the people had who have lived before them.
Most men, being the ruled, not the rulers, want good government. If, without constraint, they choose bad government, it is by mistake
We need choices of government, just like we have choices of tables or chairs or cell phones or coffee.
We can control our borders, we just choose not too.
Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
