Interest Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it…

— Han Fei

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

— Frank Herbert

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way…

— Immanuel Kant

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

— Confucius

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

— Aristotle

Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not…

— Agathon

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed.”

— Forest F. White

I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

— Rumi

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe…

— Ludwig von Mises