A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
I'd had a cold that day and wasn't as powerful as usual, otherwise Alyss would never have done so well," Redd said… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the… — John Howard Copy Share Image
There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness.… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their… — Cheryl Matthynssens Copy Share Image
In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Alexander's mere name and the fame of his feats raised rulers and realms across virtually the whole world. And those who kept… — Andrew Chugg Copy Share Image
“The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible… — Amira Aly Copy Share Image
Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even… — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
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