Famous quotes containing the words act and/or governs:
“In a democracy dissent is an act if faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.”
—J. William Fulbright (1905–19)
“When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)