Well Governed Quotes
15 quotes by 12 authors
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
— Solon
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A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
— Andre Siegfried
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt…
— C.S. Lewis
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
— Seneca the Younger
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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
— Confucius
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If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in…
— Martin Luther
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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law…
— Mark Twain
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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
— Aristotle
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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
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will…
— Confucius
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
— Anatole France
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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…
— Richard Hooker
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Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law
— Solon
Who Wrote These Well Governed Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 15 Well Governed Quotes as follows: