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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

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

Solon

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