| "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 |
| "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." »Lord Acton |
| "What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves." »Johann von Goethe |
| "To govern is always to choose among disadvantages." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." »Golda Meir |
| "People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge." »Lao Tzu |
| "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese" »Charles De Gaulle |
| "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 |
| "govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it." »Lao Tzu |
| "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 |
| "Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." »Henry Peter Brougham |
| "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 |
| "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "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 |
| "In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude." »Charles Caleb Colton |
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