A Quote by Josiah Strong

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

Josiah Strong

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Cities Governed Largest Our Rule Worst

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Josiah Strong
American - Priest
1847 - 1916

There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

Max Blumenthal

Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law.

Yoshihide Suga

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Anand Sharma

All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

Martin Luther

I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

Roger Babson

In recent years, our planet has been warming at an alarming rate and seen record-breaking temperatures. We are now witnessing the sixth mass extinction event in the earth's geologic history. Our sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, threatening our largest cities, like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

Catherine Cortez-Masto

We can either be governed by fear - fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, call the press the enemy of the people, tear kids away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border - or we can be governed by our ambitions and our aspirations and our desire to make the most out of all of us. And that's America at its best.

Beto O'Rourke

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

Ariel Sharon

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Sinclair Lewis

You’ve got to guess at worst cases: No model will tell you that. My rule of thumb is double the worst that you have ever seen.

Cliff Asness

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Robert Anton Wilson

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Suzanne Fields

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified.