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Self-rule   /sɛlf-rul/   Listen
Self-rule

noun
1.
Government of a political unit by its own people.  Synonyms: self-determination, self-government.






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"Self-rule" Quotes from Famous Books



... hard-earned liberty. It was the old story of individualism fearing to trust its welfare to the general body. That liberty is gained by entrusting liberty to an efficient government is a truism which it has taken many years of self-rule to demonstrate. ...
— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... upon the ground as I would have dropped a loathsome rag. I watched him rise to his knees, trembling, livid, and terrified, and then scramble to his feet, with satisfaction that such a thing as he had not broken my own self-rule. ...
— To-morrow? • Victoria Cross



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