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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is… — Benjamin Franklin
'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. — Thomas Fuller
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans. — Greta Garbo
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of… — Francois Hollande
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a… — Charles Krauthammer
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. — Walter Lippmann
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought… — Baron de Montesquieu
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. — Susan Sontag
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. — Laurence Sterne
That government is best which governs least. — Henry David Thoreau
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. — Oscar Wilde
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and… — Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow… — Thomas Jefferson
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. — Victor Hugo
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing… — Harold B. Lee
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government… — Stephen Colbert
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to… — W. Cleon Skousen
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son… — Elisabeth Elliot
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen… — Wendell Berry

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