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Quotes About Govern

It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.
~ Ariel Sharon
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
~ Diane Abbott
In other words, I like control. Not just being in control, but the awareness of control, the feel of control, and the ability to manipulate control itself.
~ Peter Masters
Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as "the capability of a people to govern themselves.
~ Jon Meacham
Passion could fray the bonds of union, divide one from another, and fatally wound the American experiment in democracy that Lincoln defined as "the capability of a people to govern themselves." He worried about trouble coming from the many as well as the few—or even the one, in the form of a demagogue who might try to profit from lawlessness and distrust.
~ Jon Meacham
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
~ Laurence Sterne
We teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves.
~ Prophet Joseph Smith
collectivity of politically astute citizens who, by virtue of our vaunted system of universal education and our freedom of opportunity, would be prepared to govern.
~ Ralph Ellison
NUESTRA CONDUCTA SEXUAL REVELA QUIÉN O QUÉ GOBIERNA NUESTRA VIDA.
~ Randy Alcorn
You can control the controllables.
~ Dave Ramsey
campaign in poetry and govern in prose"—and
~ David Axelrod
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
~ James Hilton
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.
~ James Madison
The king is the man who can.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.
~ Frances Osborne
If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.
~ Elizabeth I
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
~ Cornelius Cardew
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
~ Lucretius
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
~ Mario Cuomo
But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.
~ George Fitzhugh
We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
~ William Henry Harrison
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
~ William Henry Harrison
the nation faced a constitutional crisis in which both major presidential candidates—Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden—claimed victory in the 1876 election, raising concerns about who would govern the Republic.
~ David M. Oshinsky