Quotes About Governance

They that govern most make the least noise.

He ruleth all the roost.

Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

The "people" who exercise the power, are not always the same people with those over whom it is exercised; and the "self-government" spoken of, is not the government of each by himself, but of each by all the rest.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

I was dealing with governance in both instances, and individual responsibilities, and enmities and friendship. In a university, professors and others are always vying for power, and there's really no power there. If you have any power at all, it's a nothing. It's really odd that these things should happen in a university but they do. Except in scale, the machinations for power are about the same in a university as in the Roman Empire or Washington.

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Per i Padri fondatori, la folla era stata un alleato prezioso per iniziare la ribellione, ma una volta fondati gli Stati Uniti, il popolo doveva lasciarsi governare e guidare dai più saggi e competenti. La rivolta per iniziare la rivoluzione era stata la funzione della folla: concludere la rivoluzione era la funzione dei capi;

The mode of governing the country, according to the existing laws, is mostly worn into a rut, and most administrations move in it because it is easier to move there than anywhere else.

Doubtless, if all subjects of the same Government only thought of what was useful to them, and if they all thought the same thing useful, and all thought that same thing could be attained in the same way, the efficient members of a constitution would suffice, and no impressive adjuncts would be needed. But the world in which we live is organised far otherwise.

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

His solution, beautiful and unattainable, was philosopher-kings.

Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

The danger in complacency is that it causes the possessor to ignore as unimportant the local factors and conditions that govern other people with whom it deals.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

They governed from duty, heritage and habit—and, as they saw it, from right.

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

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.