Govern

Famous quotes containing the word govern:

“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
—Honoré Gabriel Riquet, Comte De Mirabeau (1749–1791)

“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
—Themistocles (c. 528–c. 462 B.C.)