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"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. 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
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"The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself." »Francis Quarles
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"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues." »George D. Prentice
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." »Lord Acton
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"What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves." »Johann von Goethe
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." »Abraham Lincoln
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"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir
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"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages." »Charles De Gaulle
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"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese" »Charles De Gaulle
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"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese" »Charles De Gaulle
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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." »Mario M Cuomo
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"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" »Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
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"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge." »Lao Tzu
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"We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves." »Prophet Joseph Smith
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"How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?" »Charles De Gaulle
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"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live." »George Bernard Shaw
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"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves." »Marquis de Sade
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"govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it." »Lao Tzu
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"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
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"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." »George Gurdjieff
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"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?" »Seneca
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"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves." »Francois Fenelon
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"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." »Henry Peter Brougham
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"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." »Henry Peter Brougham
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"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave." »Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." »Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
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"To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?" »Confucius
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. 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
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