Rulers Quotes

What luck for the rulers that men don`t think.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

I now add, farther, that the apostle`s argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.