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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Quote by Aeschylus about guvernement

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing...

Quote by Aristotel about religion, saints, gods, god

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Quote by Aristotel about democracy, man

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

Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, good, good luck

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

Quote by George W. Bush about prison

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about rightness, man

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, man

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about history, events

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about politics, intelligence, man