As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

- Alfred Korzybski

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

- Chinua Achebe

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

- Elias Canetti

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

- Herman Gorter

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

- James Bovard

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

- James Bovard

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

- Lester B. Pearson

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

- Patrick Henry

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

- Samuel Lover