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In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to… — Adolf Hitler
Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes. — Stanley Druckenmiller
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered… — Oscar Niemeyer
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next… — Laozi
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power… — Edward Abbey
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest,… — Thomas Jefferson
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson
I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance… — Benjamin Franklin
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good… — Patrick Henry
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly… — Richard Henry Lee
Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as… — Thomas Hutchinson
The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world. — Saddam Hussein
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches,… — Osama bin Laden
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves… — Confucius
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest… — Arthur Lynch
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. — Confucius
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it… — Ray Bradbury
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine… — Robert A. Heinlein
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens,… — Plato
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest,… — Plato
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because… — Plato
The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them. — Muhammad

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