Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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.
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?
I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.
