Govern Quotes

The dead govern the living. (Auguste Comte)
What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves. View quote
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 quote
James Madison
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Conscience reigns but it does not govern. View quote
Paul Valéry
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. View quote
William Penn
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
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 quote
Thomas Jefferson
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. (Vladimir Lenin)
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. View quote
George Herbert
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. View quote
Nigel Lawson
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. View quote
Philip Massinger
Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. View quote
Charles James Fox
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. View quote
Learned Hand
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. View quote
Franz Schubert
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. (Wilhelm Reich)
Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it. View quote
Greg Iles
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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 quote
William James