Quotes On rulers

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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

-Thomas Jefferson

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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

-Jonathan Mayhew

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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

-James Bovard

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

-Plato

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

-William Beveridge

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

-Ambrose Bierce

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

-Aristotle

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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

-Nikita Khrushchev

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

-Plato

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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

-Felix Frankfurter

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The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

-James Bovard

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

-Kim Stanley Robinson

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

-Lester B. Pearson

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What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

-Adolph Hitler

Rulers In Urdu

حکمران hukm raan

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  • Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. — Thomas Jefferson
  • I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. — Jonathan Mayhew
  • It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. — James Bovard

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