#governing

The true art of government consists in not governing too much. ↗

— Jonathan Shipley

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Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#antithetical #better #better off #different #empire

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#feelings #find #governing #hard #i

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#governing #history #keepers #law #more

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#broaden #crown #governing #needs #participation

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#doctrine #exclusion #god #governing #life

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster. ↗

— Tony Snow

#governing #proper #rule #senate #uses

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#discover #entire #entire universe #equal #equal measure

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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