It takes very little to govern good people. Very little…

“A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.”

— W. Cleon Skousen

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the…

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which…

— Rufus Choate

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

— Ronald Reagan

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

— Kwame Nkrumah

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of…

— Anonymous

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

— William Henry Harrison

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

— Golda Meir

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. — Kwame Nkrumah”

— Iyanla Vanzant

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just