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"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people." »Douglas Adams
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"More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people." »Woodrow Wilson
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"Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people." »Woodrow Wilson
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." »Tao Le Ching
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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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"governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind." »S. E. Lindsay
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"However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable." »Eric Hoffer
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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