Govern Quotes

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.

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

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

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.

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?

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.

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.