41 Rulers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Religion Wise People Rulers True False Common Regarded Common People Useful

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato

Humanity World Political Political Power Will Power Become Philosophers Philosophy States Rulers Those Kings Troubles Thus Come Call Till Truly End Itself Hands Same Really Now

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. Thomas Jefferson

Alone Government People Every Rulers Only Safe Trusted Themselves

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. Felix Frankfurter

Power Rulers Scenes Invisible Exercise Real Behind Washington

Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people. Tawakkol Karman

History Justice Women People Strong Free Nation Older Rulers Muslim Thousand Thousand Years About Examples Having More Through Attained Leaders Islamic Scientists Were Years Years Ago Accountable Times Than Many Professionals

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers. William Golding

Life Love People Own Sense Rulers One Thing Above Examining Invariably Shared Leaders Countries Peril Understand Been Same Common The One Thing Cannot Common Sense Many Found Why Among Thing

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified. Nostradamus

Time Great Learning Will Moon Fire Before Completed Rulers Go Loss Much Cycle Ignorant Full Floods

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.' Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Friendship You Change Together Peace People Face Rulers Neighbours Message South South Asia Want Asia Pakistan Cooperation

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. James Bovard

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Art Strength Nature Character History Man Science Experience Law Mind Rulers Woven Supreme Force Affairs Human Human Affairs Literature

There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering. Ramez Naam

Engineer Degree Engineering President Earned Rulers New Chemical Scientists His Trained Predecessor China Held Electrical Engineers Preponderance Among

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight. Wilbur Smith

Government Change Tyranny Spring Back Ran Rulers Easily Guy Structure Atrocities Like Know Terrible Overnight Tradition Chiefs Committed Modern African Which Far Show Whole Based

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

Democracy You Beginning Ruled Rulers Citizens Law-Abiding End

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. Al-Waleed bin Talal

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses. Hanya Yanagihara

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. Henry Knox

Government Nature Men Too Our Distance Say Rulers Apt Systems Collected High Admired Been Accuse Taxes Who Assessed

There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not. John Howard

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. Jonathan Mayhew

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