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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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ↗

— Richard Whately

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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

— Rene Descartes

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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ↗

— Vicente Fox

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Men still have to be governed by deception. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The world is governed by opinion. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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