That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. — Plato Copy Share Image
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. — John McDonald Copy Share Image
We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization)… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“God rules and governs all events, including the free acts of men and their external circumstances, and directs all things to their… — Layton Talbert Copy Share Image
“In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources… — Larry M. Bartels Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In America the president reigns for 4 years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what… — Confucius Copy Share Image
