Govern Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

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.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

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.

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.

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?

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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

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

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

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

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.