Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.
John LongeneckerLiberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.
John LongeneckerThere is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.
John Longenecker