Quotes About Rulers

But war was the "sport of kings." And

Elizabeth, her fellow sovereign as much as her rival for the past thirty years, was herself all too anxious to defend the ideal of monarchy: the principle that rulers were accountable to God alone.

Elohim is a homonym, and denotes God, angels, judges, and the rulers of countries,

referring to conflicts between the various rulers who had emerged in western Britain since the break with Rome.

A crucial difference between Æthelred and Alfred, however, is that Alfred fought against his enemies in person.

it implies that initially there may have been quite a lot of kingdoms

Offa had demoted them to the rank of provincial governors.

That is a great mystery," said Doctor Winter. "That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery.

That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

people] can see only the human actors upon the stage of history. Wicked rulers, ruthless dictators, tyrants, oppressors, kings, governments, and presidents are, to them, the real and only characters in the great drama of life as it affects the political realm. They have no idea at all of the unseen realm of evil personalities, energizing and motivating their human agents…

I tried my best to fight oppression, but America's at her happiest ruled by liars.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects

The insanity of our rulers also calls down punishments upon us which we have merited for a long time so that our princes become insane and mad and let the Turk come into the land.

But the rulers lingered in front of what they call the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is enlightened insight,89 so that Adam might not behold its fullness90 and recognize his shameful nakedness.

The rulers wanted to fool people, since they saw that people have a kinship with what is truly good. They took the names of the good and assigned them to what is not good, to fool people with names and link the names to what is not good. So, as if they were doing people a favor, they took names from what is not good and transferred them to the good, in their own way of thinking.

Most Roman rulers spent longer at their desks than at the dinner table. They were expected to work at the job, to be seen to exercise practical power