Easy Quote by Rona Ambrose

Governing has always been hard.

— Pete Hoekstra

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

— Laozi

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who…

— Friedrich Ratzel

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

— James Hilton

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

— Mencius

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do…

— Henry David Thoreau

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only…

— Che Guevara

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises