Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
John Ruskin
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
G. K. Chesterton
An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen.
Philip Guedalla
He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is.
Douglas Muzzio
I wanted to say that (the characters) are alive, but that they're being governed by winter.
Rafi Pitts
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.
Kwame Nkrumah
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.
Mary Anne Radmacher
The governor has never governed by polls.
Mark Rickel
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding
The big issue is how this country can be governed by such a slim majority.
Roberto D'alimonte
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
John Selden
Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
William Penn
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume
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