A Quote by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

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Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French - Historian
March 9, 1749 - April 2, 1791

The problem with Mexico isn't so much the men who govern but the lack of rules to govern by and the absence of institutions to rule with.

Denise Dresser

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Jose Saramago

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Pope Francis

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

Martin O'Malley

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

Steven Pressfield

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Cormac McCarthy

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

Tom Daschle

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Francois Rabelais

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.

Ferdinand Foch

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