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Rulers Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
- The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts…
- The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject…
- I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and…
- A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions.…
- 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,…
- Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
- We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not…
- ...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt,…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially…
- The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall…
- Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or…
- What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let…
- The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
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