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Rulers Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten…
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
- 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…
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
- The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
More Rulers Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
- The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. — James Bovard
- The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. — George W. Bush
- The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — Vaclav Havel
- I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that… — Bernard Moitessier
- If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not… — Sun Tzu
- Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. — Sun Tzu
- No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out… — Sun Tzu
- There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to… — Sun Tzu