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The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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