Governed Quotes

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

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.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

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?

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

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

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.