Who then will govern? proverb

 Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
  Andrew Johnson

 Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
  Thomas Jefferson

 What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
  James Madison

 There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason
  Hugo Grotius

 A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason
  Hugo Grotius

 We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.

 We hope he will be allowed to govern and that outside interference in Haiti's internal affairs ceases.

 The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
  Eric Hoffer

 I don't know what Senator Kerry's talking about, ... It is offensive because it's a political charge in a political year. ... I mean, what is his evidence for this, other than an assertion on his part?
  Colin Powell

 We may debate political participation in the affairs of the world as we will, but we must participate it its business, and business, like science, knows no political boundaries and in its dictionary there is no such word as isolation.
  Owen D. Young

 He had a tremendous ego -- at times, insufferable. At the same time he was incredibly brilliant, a great scholar and a great activist in American political and Israeli political affairs.

 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
  Henry Ford

 It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

 When he does charge here, it's going to affect those young men's lives for the rest of their lives, so he'd better be unbiased. That's his charge as a district attorney, not to be political.


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