WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:42:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg govern – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rabelais, Francois -- Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1.52 (1532-1552) [tr. Cohen (1955)] https://wist.info/rabelais-francois/31611/ https://wist.info/rabelais-francois/31611/#respond Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:57:50 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31611 How should I be able to govern others when I don’t know how to govern myself?


François Rabelais (1494–1553) French writer, humanist, doctor
Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1.52 (1532-1552) [tr. Cohen (1955)] ]]> https://wist.info/rabelais-francois/31611/feed/ 0 31611 Truman, Harry S -- Speech, Reciprocity Club, Washington (11 Apr 1958) https://wist.info/truman-harry-s/26433/ https://wist.info/truman-harry-s/26433/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:48:17 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26433 I’m proud that I’m a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.


Harry S Truman (1884–1972) US President (1945–1953)
Speech, Reciprocity Club, Washington (11 Apr 1958)

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