#governed

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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.


Rene Descartes


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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.


Christian Lous Lange


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Men still have to be governed by deception.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.


James Madison


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I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.


David McCallum


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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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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.


Thomas Paine


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And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.


Mike Pence


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The world cannot be governed without juggling.


John Selden


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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.


Leland Stanford


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