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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. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ↗

— Chester Irving Barnard

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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. ↗

— Clive Barnes

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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

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I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

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