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title: "7 Govern Nation Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/he-that-is-to-govern-a-whole-nation-must-read-in-himself-not-this-or/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-gaulle/how-can-anyone-govern-a-nation-that-has-two-hundred-and-forty-six/)

[Charles de Gaulle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-de-gaulle/)

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> [It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/it-must-be-that-to-govern-a-nation-you-need-a-specific-talent-and/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-d-eisenhower/so-long-as-we-govern-our-nation-by-the-letter-and-spirit-of-the-bill/)

[Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-d-eisenhower/)

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> [It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/it-is-impossible-to-rightly-govern-a-nation-without-god-and-the-bible/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-grotius/a-man-cannot-govern-a-nation-if-he-cannot-govern-a-city-he-cannot/)

[Hugo Grotius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-grotius/)

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> [I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-sidney/i-will-believe-in-the-right-of-one-man-to-govern-a-nation/)

[Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-sidney/)

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