Free people Quote by Benjamin Franklin

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people…

— Thomas Jefferson

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“That I was not long brought up by the concubine of my father; that I preserved the flower of my youth. That I took…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will…

— Edmund Burke

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a…

— Jean de La Fontaine

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to…

— Jonathan Mayhew