Foolish Quote by Thomas Hobbes

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

— Thomas Hobbes

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

— Ronald Reagan

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I…

— Andrew Johnson

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

— Augustus William Hare

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

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

— Lord Acton

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

— Sam Houston

Those are governed best who are governed least.

— Thomas Jefferson