A Quote by Moliere
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It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
That government that governs least governs best.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.
The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.
I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
Soon we will be addicted to the federal government, and we will not want to support our local police force. I have been a believer that the government that governs best is the government that governs least.
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an
equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.
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