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  1. Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists:

    Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

  2. Craig Hall:

    The administrative rule has the same effect as law, and it governs all licensed therapists and doctors.

  3. Benjamin Franklin:

    The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

  4. Robert Corn-Revere:

    It reaffirms that the rule of law governs local law enforcement officials, no matter how convinced they are of their own rightness, the sheriff's naked threat of government power did not fool the court.

  5. Thomas Jefferson:

    That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.


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