rulers quotes

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

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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

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.

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.

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