Govern Quotes - page 2

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. View quote
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. View quote
Golda Meir
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. View quote
John W. Campbell
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. View quote
Mario Cuomo
They that govern the most make the least noise. View quote
John Selden
All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally. View quote
Joseph Murphy
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. View quote
Pythagoras
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. View quote
John Adams
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife. (Thomas Fuller)
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honour and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon. View quote
Thomas Paine
I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind. View quote
John Diefenbaker
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties. View quote
Harold Wilson
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. It was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing. View quote
Donald Tsang
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around. View quote
Gore Vidal
One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance. (Walter Raleigh)
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs. View quote
Walter Raleigh
We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir. View quote
David Cameron
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there? View quote
Muammar Gaddafi