[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
He is most powerful who governs himself.
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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.
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things. . . in order that the world may be ever new.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.
That government that governs least governs best.
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits. . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.
The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
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.
Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.
Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the best choice when fools, opportunists and grafters run it. When power is for sale, then the government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.
In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
The government is worst which governs most.