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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

God, Impossible, Nation

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Enough, Another

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.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Ambition, Office

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Power, Knowledge, Ignorance

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare

Stars, Above, Conditions

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Law, Living

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

Women, Men, Long

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

Great, Small, Nation

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Fear, Live

Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato

Wants, Teach, Governs

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficult, Easy, Rule

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best, Government, Ourselves

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best, Government, Ourselves

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

Clock, Governed

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, God, Thoughts

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.
William James

Life, Thinking, Blame

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever, Question, Less

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Alexander Hamilton

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald

Nature, Politics, Men

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

Strength, Strong, Woman

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Susan B. Anthony

Good, Woman, Enough

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison

Nature, Men, Government

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

Wife, Thou, Thy

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

War, Night, Mad

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn

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