Foolish Quote by Thomas Hobbes

For there are very few so foolish who would 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 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

People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

— Laozi

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

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

— Andre Siegfried

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

— Anonymous

Those are governed best who are governed least.

— Thomas Jefferson

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!

— Pope Francis