Governed Quotes

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

An educated people can be easily governed.

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.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

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.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.