govern quotes

For a politician rises on the backs of his friends (that's probably all they're good for), but it's through his enemies he'll have to govern afterwards.

- Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
The Fox in the Attic, bk.2, ch.20.

He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself.

- Philip Massinger
  The Bondman, act1, sc.3.

Toadminister istogovern; togovernistoreign.That isthe problem.

- Honore   Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau
  Memorandum, 3  Jul.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

- Alexander Pope
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.187.

Those that govern most make least noise.

-John Selden
TableTalk (published1689).

   I now speak of the sex in general. Many individuals have more sense than their male relatives; and†some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

- Mary also known as Mrs Godwin Wollstonecraft
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, introduction.