Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
There is a denial of the value of the individual. Christianity affirms the value of each individual soul. Nazism denies it. The… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers,… — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
