Top Governed Quotes
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Marianne Moore
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
Josiah Strong
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato 
89% of people like this quote
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Marianne Moore
80% of people like this quote
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
77% of people like this quote
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
65% of people like this quote
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
62% of people like this quote
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Popular Governed Authors
George Bernard ShawLucius Annaeus SenecaBenjamin Disraeli PlatoGilbert K. ChestertonBertrand RussellAldous HuxleyNapoleon Bonaparte ConfuciusGeorg C. LichtenbergJames MadisonJonathan SwiftThomas PaineWoodrow WilsonDale Carnegie
David HumeStephen AmbroseWalter BagehotWilliam PennHenry FieldingJose SaramagoDaniel WebsterGolda MeirMike PenceHenri PoincareCharles de SecondatJames JoyceChristian Lous LangeWilliam Ellery Channing Stendhal
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