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

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Religious, Atheist

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• 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 E. Stevenson

  Law, Democracy, Abiding

  Speech in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1952.

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• We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Welfare, Government Debt, Historical

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Hero, Passion

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

  John Boyd Orr

  Revenge, War, Lust

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Philosophical, Reality

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

  Herodotus

  Kings, Rage From The Iliad, Good Things

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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• If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

  Aristotle

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

  John Barth

  History, Knaves, Events

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracies Have, Government, Voters

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's address in Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

  William Beveridge

  War, Men, Race

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 7), November 1942.

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• Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

  Aeschylus

  Leadership, Law, Society

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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Love Is, Energy, Tvs

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, History, Soldier

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 161

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• Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Quality, Ability

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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, Powerful, Slave

  Walt Whitman, “Poem Of Joys”

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• All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

  George Orwell

  Views, Age, Followers

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much, Rebellious

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Art, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.343

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