Govern Quotes

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

The highest form of development is to govern one's self.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.