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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

~Adrian Cronauer

Topics: Bedrock Built Consent Derive Governed Governments Just Nation Our Powers Principle

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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: About Come Control Destinies Each Governed Human Idiots Might More Need No Control Other Our Over Possible Stories Tell Where Who Why

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The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

~Alan Rickman

Topics: About Come Control Destinies Each Fantasy Governed Idiots Impossible Might More Need No Control Other Our Over Possible Stories Tell Where Who Why

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I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

~Alan Siegel

Topics: Also Comprehensible Governed Law Only Should Think Those Who Work I Think

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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

Topics: Bureaucracy Cease Country Democracy Democratic Effectively Even Governed Head Highly Makes Modern Modern War Must Necessarily No Country Obedient Perfectly Prepared Prepares Really Scientific Trained Tyrant Unless War Well Which

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

~Alexander Hamilton

Topics: Control Difficulty Enable First Framing Governed Government Great Itself Lies Men Must Next Oblige Over Place Which You

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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

~Alexander Hamilton

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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Topics: Community Culture Fear Governed Intimidation Political Way

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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

Topics: Beast General Govern Governed Man People Presumption Security Subjected Sufficient Themselves Those Well Were Who Will

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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Astrology Believed Century Chiefly Christian Crops Cut Governed Had Health His Influences Life Medicine Occult Only Planetary Science Some Still Trusting Which Wholly

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