Quotes About Rulership

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

He was king, if he didn't have enemies he wasn't doing it right.

The king reigns, but does not govern.

It is the duty of those who claim to rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case, nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.

They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. 

subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, [48] seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Be Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Emperor Paul–crush them all under you . . . be the Master, & all will bow down to you.

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?

I would be bored to death if I didn't control a country--Gin

Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.

We were not born to sue, but to command.