A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“What is governing to a man that can rule himself? If he cannot rule himself, how shall he rule others?” — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements. — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their… — Confucius Copy Share Image
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government… An armed society is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a… — Hugo Grotius Copy Share Image
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking… — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image