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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

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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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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ↗

— Angela Carter

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Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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