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A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

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Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ↗

— Angela Carter

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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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Voters will decide how they want to be governed. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

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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. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

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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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