Govern Quotes

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?