People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is…

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

— Cecil Purdy

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the…

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what's 'in' or…

— Matthew Bourne

[The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies…

— Samuel Gompers

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which…

— Rufus Choate

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

— Confucius

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

— William Penn

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.”

— W. Cleon Skousen

“It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by…

— Larry P. Arnn

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

— Charles Dickens

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that…

— Thomas Jefferson