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

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years is to have the best future for our nation then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people not by the factions.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets in the daily work of the communications media in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

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