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
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne
How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
Hugh Sidey
In less than a week, Bode apologized for his comments, he took responsibility for his comments and his governing body took decisive action.
Darryl Seibel
I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
James I Of England
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Kiam
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.
Kwame Nkrumah
I will govern according to principle. The time has come for us to believe again.
Len Munsil
The coalition is divided over everything and must admit it is not longer fit to govern.
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
What you've done is effectively cut off any discourse or dialogue. If we're only going to govern by anger, then we've lost the game.
Danny Glover
I believe you govern from your personal experience.
Russell Potts
Berlusconi is a man fighting against the whole country. I don't know how he can govern Italy in this way, and in fact I think he won't be governing it any more.
Massimo D'alema
The government will not be out there declaring initiatives of confidence when they're not, ... We'll be very clear and very consistent in our approach. But our intention is to govern.
Tony Valeri
Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
Charles James Fox
Berlusconi is a man who is fighting against the entire country. I don't know how he can think to govern Italy in this fashion.
Massimo D'alema
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald
Either he'll do well or he'll fall flat on his face and be ousted within a year. Either way, the MAS got their chance to govern.
Carola Sandy
He comes from a different place and he has a fundamentally different set of beliefs about how you govern this city.
Anthony Weiner
It is important that when we argue for greater community input, we then follow up and actually provide feedback to make this a collaborative approach to governing.
Amy Campbell
It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
Thomas a Kempis
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Charles de Gaulle
Most of the elements are from the text of the resolution adopted by the governing board, which we already voted for.
Adamantios Vassilakis
We have consulted with counsel every step of the way and have followed the law and regulations that govern our work.
Pat Toomey
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Comte De Mirabeau
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
I have changed my ministers, but I have not changed my measures; I am still for moderation and will govern by it.
Princess Anne
I believe that whoever wins an an election, even by a close margin, has a right and a duty to govern.
Massimo D'alema
There is no law governing all things.
Giordano Bruno
The dead govern the living.
Auguste Comte
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
Germany is becoming more difficult to govern.
Juergen Thumann
Within the majority there are grave and serious divisions. It will be very difficult to govern this coalition.
Stefano Folli
The commission is an independent decision-making body and there are strong rules that govern how they conduct their business.
Linda Barth
If the governing body wants to allow high-rise buildings, [then that's what will happen].
Larry Price
Our party has convinced the people that we have the potential to govern, and that we are able to become the alternative party in a bipartisan system.
Yukio Hatoyama
The way a candidate chooses to run his or her campaign is pretty much a clear indication of the way they will govern.
Shaye Rabold
How can anyone govern a university where a fraction of faculty members can force a president out?
Joseph O'donnell
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
William Penn
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.
Robert H. Bork
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Nigel Lawson
Women are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.
Sarah Moore Grimké
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Themistocles
We should be concerned when somebody's politicking and campaigning gets in the way of doing their job of governing - and it's certainly not the first time it's happened with Jim Davis.
David Kochman
Berlusconi can take our word for it: the Left won so it should govern.
Roberto Maroni
Even if Wahid was to survive, which would be a miracle, I don't think he would be able to govern.
Umar Juoro
I am sure that next time we will be the governing party.
Avigdor Lieberman
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown
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