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title: "4 Rulers Ruled Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-there-is-any-hell-more-unprincipled-than-our-rulers-and-we-the/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/of-course-women-have-long-exercised-influence-behind-the-scenes-a-few/)

[Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/)

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> [“It had always been thus, one law for the rulers, another for those they ruled. “Can”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-penny/it-had-always-been-thus-one-law-for-the-rulers-another-for-those-they/)

[David Penny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-penny/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/david-penny-231455_law_it-had-always-been-thus-one-law-for-the_587686.jpg)

> [As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/as-citizens-of-this-democracy-you-are-the-rulers-and-the-ruled-the/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fe/adlai-e-stevenson-9902_citizens_as-citizens-of-this-democracy-you-are-th_1292428.jpg)

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