The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as...… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon… — Lewis Browne Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers… — Ai Weiwei 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
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
