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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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes 
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Adrian Cronauer
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George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
Tony Snow
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Walter Bagehot
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Solon
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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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