Quotes with govern

  • A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
  • Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
  • Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
  • 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.
  • Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
  • 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.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Charles James Fox Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • George S. Clason Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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  • Molière Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Horace Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A community is like the ones who govern it.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Algernon Sydney A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Mason Brown America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • George Eliot 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Omar N. Bradley Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For just experience tells, in every soil, I that those that think must govern those that toil.
    The Traveller
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Fortune and humor govern the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • P. Massinger He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
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  • Alexander Hamilton Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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