If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. They have nothing to do with race or even with political parties. Secondly, I think nothing substitutes for the power of the grassroots by showing them the courtesy of going to them where they are and inviting them to take part in the political process.
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There's a spark of good in everybody, no mater how deeply it may be buried. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously.
You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.
I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.
Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.