“It is much safer to obey, than to govern.”
Thomas a Kempis
“By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.”
Mark Twain
“It is much safer to obey than to rule”
Thomas Kempis
“Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be”
“The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
“We may not always oblige, but we may always speak obligingly”
Voltaire
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
Soren Kierkegaard
