Governs

Famous quotes containing the word governs:

“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“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.)

“We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with our limited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)