Governing Quotes - Page 7

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

Bill Richardson

School, Thinking, Issues

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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

Thomas More

Art, War, Crooks

1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. Because he believes in himself, he doesn't try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn't need others' approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him.

Laozi

Jobs, Believe, Men

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Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

George Washington

People, Voting, Littles

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.358

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He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Charles James Fox

Relationship, Leadership, Opinion

On Pitt's scheme of Parliamentary Reform, in J. L. Hammond 'C. J. Fox' (1903) p. 75

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I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

Tony Abbott

Thinking, Excuse, Prime

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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Ambrose Bierce

Republic, Obedience, Authority

Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (2000). “The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires”, p.218, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington

Liberty, Triumph, Despotism

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington”, p.426

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Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country.

Nikki Haley

Country, Real, President

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I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

Scott McClellan

Philosophy, Believe

"McClellan backs some of Obama's agenda". www.cnn.com. May 31, 2008.

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Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

Garry Wills

Government, Self, Essence

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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

Ferdinand Foch

Military, War, Tactics

Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

Running, School, Body

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First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so as thus to discern the particular laws governing a certain class of phenomena. In general, it is not until after these particular laws have been established that one can expect to discover and articulate the more general laws that complete theories by bringing a multitude of apparently very diverse phenomena together under a single governing principle.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Numbers, Law, Class

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Theodor Reik

Love, Healing, Goal

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There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

H. L. Mencken

Believe, Health, Men

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Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Bill Frist

Sound, Relation, Trade

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When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

Tony Evans

Christian, Blood, People

Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.99, Moody Publishers

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[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.

Jonathan Schell

War, Attachment, Class

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We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

Thomas Berry

Moving, Creativity, Appreciate

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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

Wendell Willkie

Country, World, Matter

Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

Confucius

Demand, Able, Difficulty

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All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future.

Thomas Berry

Self, Community, Earth

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And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

William Lloyd Garrison

Passion, Giving, Forever

Speech in Charleston, South Carolina, April 14, 1865.

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The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

Leon M. Lederman

Small Numbers, Law, Effort

Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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