Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do. — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Irrespective of their party affiliation or wishes on the matter, those governing from 10 Downing Street now have to take on much… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile,… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor,… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Formula 1 racing had a personal scandal right up at the top of its governing body that was so weird, that was… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“America is exactly what we make it. The land of hopes and dreams, where you build your future. This society hands us… — D.M. Shiro Copy Share Image
No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
From the Scriptures we find basic truths that may serve as the foundation of our teaching of history. The first basic truth… — D. A. Fisher Copy Share Image
In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Governing is the noble but hard job of trying to get anything done under a permanent condition of Murphy’s Law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't have a Twitter president. This is serious stuff, this governing. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
