A Quote by William Penn

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

William Penn

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William Penn
English - Leader
October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

Algernon Sidney

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

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Henry Ward Beecher

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

Theodore Roosevelt

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .

Kwame Nkrumah

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

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

Jeb Bush

There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.'1 Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principle.