Top Rulers Quotes
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
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
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
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Alfred Korzybski
Nikita Khrushchev 
Elias Canetti 
Plato 
Meir Kahane 
Alfred Korzybski 
Ambrose Bierce All Rulers Quotes
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 
62% of people like this quote
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
60% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry
58% of people like this quote
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
Alfred Korzybski
56% of people like this quote
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti
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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
54% of people like this quote
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
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