Governing Quotes

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. (Michel de Montaigne)
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. View quote
Barry Goldwater
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. View quote
Laozi
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. View quote
David McCallum
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. (Thomas Paine)
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy. View quote
Donald Tsang
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
The unknown is the governing condition of war. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered. View quote
Joan Robinson
I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen. View quote
Joseph Chamberlain
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone. View quote
African Spir
How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan. View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people. View quote
Che Guevara