Advice Quote by Sam Houston

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— James Hilton

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

— Aldous Huxley

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

— Ronald Reagan

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

— Tom Daschle

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

— Ronald Reagan

Those are governed best who are governed least.

— Thomas Jefferson

“You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

— James Madison