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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ↗

— Plato

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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left. ↗

— John Podesta

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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The world cannot be governed without juggling. ↗

— John Selden

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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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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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