Ill Quote by Edmund Burke

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”

— James MacGregor Burns

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

— William Ralph Inge

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

— Albert Einstein

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

— Jane Porter

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

— John Fletcher

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers…

— Anonymous

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

— Frederick Lenz

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses…

— Ben Moreell

Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless,

— Iain Pears

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

— Zhuangzi