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
Jacques Delors 
Paul Tsongas 
Vicente Fox 
William Henry Harrison 
James Madison 
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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
59% of people like this quote
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Nicolas Chamfort
58% of people like this quote
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
Jim Gerlach
58% of people like this quote
In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.
John Podesta
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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
Stephen Ambrose
56% of people like this quote
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
Vicente Fox
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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 ChanningAngela Carter
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