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A ruler isn't always straight.
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2001
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Aristotle
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Side
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Put
Devotion
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Hand
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
War
Me
Man
Other
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Mine
Ruler
Though
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
Life
Me
Will
Nothing
Live
Meet
Ruler
Take
Powerful
Command
Oh
While
Conqueror
Ever
Exterior
Slave
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Government
Needs
Religion
People
Wish
Ruler
Weak
All Religions
Would
Religions
Bottom
He
Catch
His
Times
Uphold
Sea
Trap
Who
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
Good
First
Ruled
Ruler
Must
He
Been
Who
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu
Good
Ruler
General
Caution
Full
Enlightened
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Thomas a Kempis
Obey
Ruler
Willingly
Only
He
Safe
Learned
Who
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Catherine the Great
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Guided
Ruler
Circumstances
Must
Capable
Conjecture
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Benjamin Banneker
Gratitude
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Sense
Universe
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Dye
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