Laws Govern

Famous quotes containing the words laws and/or govern:

    “So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
    Where are the captains that govern mankind?
    What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
    A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
    March wind, and any old tune,
    March march and how does it run.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)