Quotes About Governance

He exercised a supervisory role and knew all about the money funneled to politicians.

People were "governed more by passion and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests

Washington had a more relaxed style with girls and used to say ruefully that he could govern men but not boys.

We consider situation critical, politicians appear to have absolute control.

Rockefeller would become their official umpire and try to govern their pool in a fair, disinterested fashion.

The best minds are not in government.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

My definition of success is control.

In the township, as well as everywhere else, the people is the only source of power; but in no stage of government does the body of citizens exercise a more immediate influence.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.

It is difficult to associate a people in the work of government; but it is still more difficult to supply it with experience, and to inspire it with the feelings which it requires in order to govern well.

A well-governed state is as fruitful to all good purposes, as the seven-headed serpent is said to have been in evil; when one head is cut off, many rise up in the place of it. Good order being once established, makes good men...

Thanks to the Wars of the Roses, by the end of the period covered by this book a king's title to the throne had come not to matter as much as his ability to hold on to that throne and to govern effectively.

BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.

Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to. By

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.

However, in 2004 there were only some seven hundred community foundations in the United States and almost three thousand corporate foundations, so the overwhelming number of the approximately 68,000 American foundations are independent foundations that are effectively unaccountable to any outside force.)

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.