Complete freedom Quote by Jean-Paul Marat

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.…

— Joseph de Maistre

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people…

— Thomas Jefferson

“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends…

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their…

— Ben Jonson

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

— Elizabeth I

In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for…

— Niccolo Machiavelli