Quotes about Governance
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
- Edmund Burke
Those are governed best who are governed least.
- Thomas Jefferson
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
- John Adams
Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
- Isabel Allende
The dead should not rule the living.
- Thomas Jefferson
He created the laws and principles—sowing and reaping, cause and effect and the free will of humans—that govern the earth. We, however, implement these principles and determine much of what we reap and experience.
- Dutch Sheets
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Edmund Burke
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
- Andrew Jackson