Can do Quote by Robert Graves

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

— Publilius Syrus

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing…

— John Perkins

For 40 years, I have not been the ruler - the authority has been with the people. They take nothing from me or add…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

— Pericles

It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I…

— Christina, Queen of Sweden

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of…

— Wilhelm Frick

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler

— Wilhelm Canaris

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten…

— Roger Williams

They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am…

— Michael Davitt

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not…

— Sophie Scholl

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can…

— Marcus Aurelius

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau