Governed Quotes
Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
The public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless... The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.
Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!
If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!
A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.
Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!