Quotations
Quotes:
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
View quotes by Lord Acton
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
The king reigns, and the people govern themselves
View quotes by Louis Adolphe Thiers
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
View quotes by John Brown
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
View quotes by Lao Tzu
They that govern the most make the least noise.
View quotes by John Selden
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
View quotes by William Penn
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
View quotes by James Madison
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
View quotes by Golda Meir
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.
View quotes by William James
With words we govern men.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
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.
View quotes by Thomas Jefferson
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
View quotes by Mario Cuomo
We have got a mandate to govern this country again [2005 election]
View quotes by Tony Blair
Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state
View quotes by Samuel Foote
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
View quotes by David Hume
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
View quotes by Sir John Vanbrugh
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