A Quote by Lord Acton

It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

Lord Acton

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Easier Find Fit Govern Others People Than Themselves

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Lord Acton
January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

James Madison

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

Walter Raleigh

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

Cormac McCarthy

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

Steven Pressfield

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Augustus William Hare

There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

George W. Bush

Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for a good fit. And a lot of times, a good fit is someone different than yourself. I'm not one to get too hung up on outside appearances. I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

John C. Reilly

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

Naftali Bennett

If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country.

Jonathan Meades

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Aldous Huxley

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

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Henry Ward Beecher

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

Mary Astell

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

Francois Rabelais

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