He had not the face to say that the right of the people to govern 'niggers' was the right of the people to govern themselves.
Was it the right of emigrants to Kansas and Nebraska to govern themselves, and a lot of 'niggers,' too, if they wanted them?
It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs--in other words, the right of the people to govern themselves.
Lastly, a third system consisted in allowing a certain number of emigrants to constitute a political society under the protection of the mother-country, and to govern themselves in whatever was not contrary to her laws.
Nevertheless, they already exercise a great influence in its councils; and they arrive at the government of the commonwealth before they have learned to govern themselves.
True information is mainly derived from experience, and if the Americans had not been gradually accustomed to govern themselves, their book-learning would not assist them much at the present day.
We have not been in a controversy about the right of the people to govern themselves in the ordinary matters of domestic concern in the States and Territories.
Can you get anybody to tell you now that the people of a Territory have any authority to govern themselves, in regard to this mooted question of slavery, before they form a State constitution?
I suppose that Judge Douglas will claim, in a little while, that he is the inventor of the idea that the people should govern themselves; that nobody ever thought of such a thing until he brought it forward.
They will gladden the hearts of those who have proclaimed that men are not fit to govern themselves, and shed a disastrous eclipse on the hopes of rational freedom throughout the world.
The great English principle of no tax without representation was violated in one case, and the great American principle, that people are able to govern themselves, will be violated if the amendment be adopted.
Can you get any body to tell you now that the people of a Territory have any authority to govern themselves, in regard to this mooted question of slavery, before they form a State Constitution?
I suppose that Judge Douglas will claim in a little while, that he is the inventor of the idea that the people should govern themselves; that nobody ever thought of such a thing until he brought it forward.
Can you get anybody to tell you now that the people of a Territory have any authority to govern themselves, in regard to this mooted question of Slavery, before they form a State Constitution?
The People now must choose whether they would be governed by enemies, or govern themselves.
Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter irony and sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying: "The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves, but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes!
This is most obvious where racial questions arise, and there is more and more declared the rights of men under the sanction and rule of the majority to govern themselves.
They would brook no control, even from self-constituted authorities, and at first endeavoured to govern themselves by general meetings of citizens.
We have left the other directors to govern themselves as they may think best for the interests of those by whom they were chosen.
The election of General Jackson was a triumph of democratic principle, and an assertion of the people's right to govern themselves.
He had not the face to say that the right of the people to govern "niggers" was the right of the people to govern themselves.
Was it the right of emigrants to Kansas and Nebraska to govern themselves, and a lot of "niggers," too, if they wanted them?
If your honors have any doubt in regard to this decision, I call upon you, not in the name of mercy, but in the name of justice, to give us the benefit of that doubt, and to recognize the right of all human beings to govern themselves.
Calvin, although a Republican, judged that the people are unfit to govern themselves, and declared the popular assembly an abuse that ought to be abolished.
Religious liberty, therefore, is possible only where the co-existence of different religions is admitted, with an equal right togovern themselves according to their own several principles.
But in obeying laws to which all men have agreed, all men, in reality, govern themselves.
The great declaration of Monroe, made in the infancy of Latin American liberty, was an assertion to all the world of the competency of Latin Americans to govern themselves.
Cuba do not themselves give up the effort to govern themselves.
He wanted independence and he wanted the recognition of the right and of the ability of the natives to govern themselves; and yet he wanted them to adopt a foreign language.
The Filipinos are not yet fit to govern themselves, much less to govern the Moros and other non-Christian tribes, even if let alone, and they would not be let alone should we turn their country over to them.
England will, therefore, not have fulfilled her duty to the Egyptians or to herself until she has taught the people to govern themselves.
The very first qualification for a people who desire to govern themselves is that they should be competent to weigh and value the services of the men in whose hands the administration of the country is placed or to be placed.
If the Egyptians are unable to see that this has been so, they are unable to estimate the services of any administrator, and therefore unfit to govern themselves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "govern themselves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
