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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato
No-One
Well
Govern
Governs
Wants
Teach
Teaches
Who
Ever
A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
Pope Francis
Good
Christian
Those
Does
Govern
Pray
Pray For
Who
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
Vladimir Lenin
Every
State
Learn
How
Govern
Cook
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich
Work
Love
Knowledge
Our
Our Lives
Also
Govern
Should
Lives
The dead govern the living.
Auguste Comte
Living
Dead
Govern
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Best
Business
Trouble
Considering
Projects
Those
Carrying
Adopted
Having
Previous
Seldom
Take
Generally
New
Like
Execution
Occasion
Forced
Govern
New Projects
Hands
Public
Much
Measures
Who
Therefore
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Claudio Hummes
History
Political
Political Power
Church
Power
Active
Society
Inserted
Exercise
Does
Govern
Exist
Human
Order
Human Society
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
Life
You
Fear
Reward
Will
Poverty
Live
Eat
Govern
Going
Your
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen Thomas
People
Think
Once
Presidents
Nixon
Seem
More
Could
Had
Longer
Govern
Covered
Decided
Convince
Persuade
Should
Who
Tolerant
Tolerate
Now
Credibility
Two
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Howard Rheingold
Democracy
You
Revolution
Unlocked
Press
Simply
Until
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Printing
Printing Press
Govern
Literacy
Themselves
Who
The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.
Jim Mattis
Example
National
Our
Security
Knows
How
Govern
Itself
America
National Security
Aspects
Compelling
It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
John Berger
Life
Me
Power
Own
Way
Those
About
Seemed
More
Know
Without
Always
Govern
Than
Create
Who
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown
Women
Men
Rule
Govern
America
Where
Land
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Jose Saramago
Problem
Ideas
Without
Govern
Left
Any
Right
Need
Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
Marie Kondo
Life
Future
You
People
Job
Fears
Past
Own
Every
Relationships
Way
Criteria
Only
Attachment
Select
Also
Make
Concerning
Govern
Represent
Which
Choices
Aspect
Your
Including
Things
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Martin Van Buren
Myself
Me
Constitution
Strict
Will
Country
Duty
Framed
Those
Adherence
High
Spirit
Principle
Calls
Govern
Which
Declare
Who
Therefore
Letter
Designed
Desire
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
Pete du Pont
Time
You
Nation
Changes
Way
Crisis
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Ability
Shape
Take
Had
Make
Govern
Going
Agenda
Roosevelt
Use
Moment
Thinks
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Pope Francis
Politics
Best
Good
Prayer
Those
Catholic
Himself
Govern
Offer
Offering
Who
The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.
Ratan Tata
Government
Suits
Job
Country
Important
Control
Other
Run
Fact
Important Thing
Govern
Governance
Hand
Manage
Micro
Where
In Fact
Them
Should
Thing
Application
It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges.
Theresa May
Democracy
People
Country
Laws
Make
Judges
Govern
Essential
Representatives
Elected
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Kiam
You
Men
Rule
Only
Exception
Without
Govern
Them
Serving
The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
Alain Juppe
Good
Respect
People
Decision
Will
Wish
Luck
Good Luck
France
Those
Spoken
Govern
Sovereign
Who
Now
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
Alan Dershowitz
Democracy
Important
Reflect
Those
Laws
Attitudes
Because
Govern
Precisely
Aspirations
George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.
Alexandra Petri
Somewhere
Down
Trees
Presidents
Laugh
Possibly
More
Could
Had
He
Along
Also
Make
Govern
Cherry
George
Line
George Washington
Began
Than
American
Expecting
Just
Establish
Us
Avoid
Help
Chopping
Washington
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Allen Weinstein
Independence
Responsibilities
Must
Archivist
Laws
Thus
Devotion
Principles
Govern
Times
Office
Which
Display
The president has to govern.
Amy Klobuchar
President
Govern
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