Top 100 To Govern Quotes
#1. Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
George Washington
#2. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
#3. When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#4. None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary Astell
#5. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
Daniel Webster
#6. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.
Plato
#10. The dead hand of society's inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.
Peter F. Hamilton
#11. You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.
George Soros
#12. What we need today are not more laws to govern believers. What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us!
Joseph Prince
#14. We must train our 'future candidates' on not only how to win elections but how to govern well.
Fela Durotoye
#15. It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#16. When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.
Joshua Harris
#17. We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
James Hilton
#18. It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#19. God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
R.C. Sproul
#20. Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose.
Richard Lamm
#21. What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Barry Commoner
#22. The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
Pliny The Elder
#23. Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Thomas A Kempis
#24. 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.
Learned Hand
#25. I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
#26. If men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others?
Philip K. Dick
#27. What we need in Washington now is a strong Republican president who knows how to govern.
Chris Christie
#28. His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense of the country's political drift. Rather than being encouraged to govern, the Shah's courtiers preferred to encourage him in his idleness.
Charles Emmerson
#30. It had been well known for twenty years that the distribution of large and small earthquakes followed a particular mathematical pattern, precisely the same scaling pattern that seemed to govern the distribution of personal incomes in a free-market economy.
James Gleick
#31. Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.
Jan Brewer
#33. No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony
#34. Just as the ocean wears away the rocks and bends the contour of the shoreline to it's will, so it washes over a man's mind, smoothing the sharp edges, knocking off the conceits, flattening the prejudices so that he is left with a different instrument with which to govern his life.
Frank Mulville
#35. The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.
Dennis Miller
#36. The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
John Lancaster Spalding
#37. 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.
Pete Du Pont
#38. Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way
to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.
B.F. Skinner
#39. Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.
John F. Kennedy
#40. I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#41. A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."
Charlie Munger
#42. to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself.
Steven Pressfield
#43. As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes
#44. To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Dallas Willard
#45. It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
Will Rogers
#46. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Cormac McCarthy
#47. I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Elizabeth I
#48. Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#49. So ludicrous, in fact, do these ceremonies appear to me, that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the LADY could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#50. God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.
R.C. Sproul
#51. No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.
Stephen King
#52. Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.
Adolf Hitler
#53. There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
#54. I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
Hampton Sides
#55. Putting this all together, it makes sense that WEIRD philosophers since Kant and Mill have mostly generated moral systems that are individualistic, rule-based, and universalist. That's the morality you need to govern a society of autonomous individuals.
Jonathan Haidt
#56. A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. collectivity of politically astute citizens who, by virtue of our vaunted system of universal education and our freedom of opportunity, would be prepared to govern.
Ralph Ellison
#58. There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.
John Roberts
#59. The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.
Charles Lindbergh
#61. If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses ... only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#62. What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Abraham Lincoln
#63. It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
W. Somerset Maugham
#64. Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
Mary Daly
#66. I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.
David Souter
#67. The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next.
Noah Feldman
#68. Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.
Du Mu
#69. [Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#70. You live by whatever rules you need to govern your life the best you think. Let's just try not to encroach.
S.A. Tawks
#71. Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
Greg Iles
#73. To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
Edmund Burke
#74. Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.
James Russell Lowell
#75. The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
#77. To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
Confucius
#78. And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
#79. Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.
Thuli Madonsela
#80. If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame De Stael
#81. We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
Martin O'Malley
#82. How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
Miguel De Cervantes
#83. The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Thomas Jefferson
#84. Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#86. Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.
Francois Jacob
#87. Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity
Gene Luen Yang
#88. I want you Red, more than I have ever wanted anything in my whole life. I want to govern you, I want to dictate you but more than that, I want to pleasure you, please you and I want to watch your beautiful face as I make you quiver and scream in ecstasy.
D.H. Sidebottom
#89. Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
Ernest Holmes
#90. In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
Diane Abbott
#91. Al-Qaeda doesn't want to govern Iraq or Saudi Arabia. It wants to collapse them and exercise power through feudal relationships in the vacuum created by their failure.
John Robb
#92. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.
Leonard Sax
#93. We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.
David Cameron
#94. If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.
Mikhail Kalinin
#95. Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.
David Souter
#96. The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
Mitch McConnell
#97. Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity and goodwill and clear convictions and a servant's heart.
Sarah
#98. To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Ariel Sharon
#99. If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country.
Jonathan Meades
#100. One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert
