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

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth but as highly powerful conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

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

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.

There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Democracy is when the indigent and not the men of property are the rulers.

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races but the happiness of common man.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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.

I now add farther that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey and submit to such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good and so to the design of their office that it proves the direct contrary.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.