A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

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 Sydney

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.
Mike Pence

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

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
John Drinkwater

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

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

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine

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

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
Tony Snow

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

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

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

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.
David McCallum