Quotes About Rulership

He was my friend, faithful, and just to me, but Brutus says, he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious. When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should me made of sterner stuff, yet Brutus says, he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.

Um Livreiro pode ser um Rei, mas um Rei jamais será um Livreiro.

A natureza do Sol em Áries é liderar e, em Leão, reger.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Just as kingly rule is the best, so is the rule of the tyrant the worst.

By this axe I rule!

The Prince of Shadow is no longer a prince, dear. He's as good as king of this realm.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Mineralmaster, Ninurta

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

he became King of Portugal, King of Naples, King of Sicily, the Duke of Milan

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Do you, like Agamemnon, attempt to dominate your world?

I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

As it has always been, so shall it ever be. The King is on his throne and is in control.

one of the most frequent references to it concerns His sovereignty over nations and governments.

Even a person of mediocre intelligence and ability can easily run a state once he or she is in the seat of power.