Quotes About Rulership

Mughal success was the product of hard-driving, active rulership exercised by extremely capable rulers who acted as their own chief executives.

or a man's own consent subjects him to a superior.

Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

A Princess called to rule a kingdom must know it through and through, if she is to reign worthily. And how can she know it, if she is not given the freedom of it?

Dionysius II had every gift except good sense; he was also an incurable alcoholic. He soon lost patience with his two would-be political tutors and threw them out.

Aristotle's free society is one in which the citizens participate in their government rather than submit to it. All will be rulers in one way or another, at one time or another. "This means some rule, and others are ruled, in turn, as if they had become, for the time being, different persons.

the God of Scripture is no make-believe monarch, no mere imaginary sovereign, but King of kings, and Lord of lords. "I

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

quae apud alios iracundia dicitur, ea in imperio superbia atque crudelitas appellatur.

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

Hence, in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens

Aristotle states that only one thing could justify monarchy, and that was if the virtue of the king and his family were greater than the virtue of the rest of the citizens put together. Tactfully

Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

What a splendid king you'd make of a desert island-- you and you alone.

Still the king, the master of all things? No more: here your power ends.

Not if you rule unjustly.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

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

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?... the law of force itself, to those who could not plead any other, has always seemed the most natural of all grounds for the exercise of authority.

Shrewdly and deliberately, Julius orchestrated every aspect of his building campaigns, tomb project, paintings, and ceremonial pageantry to convey the message that he was born to be-and had rightly assumed his God-given role as-his Christian Caesar.

His solution, beautiful and unattainable, was philosopher-kings.

Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.