Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Stevenson I

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Al-Waleed bin Talal
Al-Waleed bin Talal

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

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

Andrew Greeley
Andrew Greeley

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

Aristotle
Aristotle

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

Aristotle
Aristotle

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

Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Charles Hodge
Charles Hodge

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.