Govern Quotes

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.

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

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

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.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

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.

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

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

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.

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

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

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.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

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

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

The highest form of development is to govern one's self.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

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?

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

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.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

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