Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest."
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Governing
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Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy."
John Brown
Abolitionist, Military Leader
"The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them."
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"My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable."
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"I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things."
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"Campaigning is different from governing."
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