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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 Sidney

Themselves, Security, General

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.
Tom Daschle

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

Though, Ask, Shall

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.
Steve Forbes

Real, Sure, President

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.
Steven Weber

Society, Reality, Less

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.
Julius Streicher

Today, Country, America

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham

Education, Impossible, Difficult

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.
David Petraeus

War, Democracy, Said

Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
Tom Coburn

Government, Focus, Give

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
Joe Lieberman

Best, Experience, Anger

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
Andrew Johnson

Men, Political, Answer

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
Nelson A. Miles

May, Understand, Able

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen Thomas

Two, Once, Seem

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.
John Thune

Leadership, Forward, Put

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Philip Massinger

Others, Himself, Master

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Claudio Hummes

Power, History, Society

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice

Men, Might, Whose

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
Richard Lugar

Time, Country, Small

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
Russell M. Nelson

Happiness, Principles, Eternal

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.
Antonis Samaras

Best, Someone, Example

My plan is to govern as long as I can.
Kathleen Wynne

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
William H. Wharton

Knowledge, Lives, Knows

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.
Aly Khan

Islam, Political, Human

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.
Howard Fineman

War, Country, Media

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
Johannes P. Muller

Science, Chemistry, Physics

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.
Michael Beschloss

Different, Country, America

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.
Edward Klein

Ability, Fantastic, Skill

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
Bob Kerrey

Understand, Short, Violence

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Allen Weinstein

Times, Office, Principles

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
Karen Bass

Throw, Rocks, Easier

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