Quote by Jonathan Swift

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Were you acquainted with me, you would know that my failings are equal to my victories. On my own, I am no more than…

— Chuck Black

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order…

— Nancy Goldstone

“How the prince of this world presses and throngs with clamours, more or less noble and good, but all in order to keep us…

— David McCasland

“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“This again results naturally and necessarily from the circumstance that the Prince cannot avoid giving offence to his new subjects, either in respect of…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“It is royal to do good and to be abused.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

“The only way I can keep clear of force is by justice. Far from being willing to execute his enemies, a real king must…

— T.H. White