"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents." — Napoleon Bonaparte

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• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
• I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more. — Antonio Banderas
• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• America is a land where men govern, but women rule. — John Mason Brown
• To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. — Albert Camus
• To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. — Lord Chesterfield
• Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we… — Dallin H. Oaks
• I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And… — Joan of Arc
• Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved. — Laozi
• God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He… — Charles Colson
• When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me… — Thomas Paine

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