Governed Quotes
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Nelson A. Miles
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
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
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Aldous Huxley
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.
Richard Hooker
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli
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
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Jacques Delors
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
DeForest Soaries
And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
Mike Pence
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.
John Yoo
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
Stephen Hawking