Fail Quote by Han Fei

When an enlightened ruler controls his ministers, he makes it so that ministers cannot get credit for achievements gained by overstepping the bounds of…

— Han Fei

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

— Frank Herbert

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

— Sun Tzu

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that…

— Louis XIV

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent…

— Sun Tzu

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

— George Orwell

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

— J. Oswald Sanders

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or…

— John Adams

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies…

— Thomas Paine

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time…

— Winston Churchill