#governed

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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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

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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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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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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

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The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. ↗

— William Greider

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

— Rene Descartes

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