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158 quotesPeople are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Reason
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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The world is governed by opinion.
World
William Ellery Channing
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Government
John Jay Chapman
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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Family
Chinese Proverb
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A community is like the ones who govern it.
Influence
Marcus T. Cicero
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Let reason govern desire.
Reason
Marcus T. Cicero
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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
Money
George S. Clason
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Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
Government
Grover Cleveland
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The dead govern the living.
Tradition
Auguste Comte
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Government
Victor Cousin
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Elections
Mario Cuomo
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A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Politicians and Politics
Benjamin Disraeli
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The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Politicians and Politics
Benjamin Disraeli
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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Government
William O. Douglas
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Government
John Foster Dulles
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Government
William J. Durant
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The less government we have the better.
Government
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Constitutions
Gerald R. Ford
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Government
Gerald R. Ford
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Kings
Charles James Fox
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Pride
Benjamin Franklin
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An educated people can be easily governed.
Government
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Government
Milton Friedman
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Government
Milton Friedman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun