Definition of Governed

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Definition of Governed
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Governed Quotations

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

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

Governed Translations

governed in German is beherrscht, regierte
governed in Swedish is styrd

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