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Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition. – Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? – Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? – Seneca	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. – William James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. – Francois Fenelon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves. – Prophet Joseph Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. – Lord Acton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. – Daniel Webster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What government is the best -- That which teaches us to govern ourselves. – Johann von Goethe	added by acronimous 14 years ago
All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. – Golda Meir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. – Henry Peter Brougham	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario M Cuomo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. – Jefferson Davis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese? – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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