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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

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

Seneca
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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

C. S. Lewis
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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
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Adolf Hitler
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The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them.

Amy Goodman
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People won't see enforcement officers out in their yards with rulers measuring the height of a blade of grass. Our intent is to be reasonable and we're willing to work with individuals to rectify the problem, whatever it is.

Rick Fulmer
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Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

Pope Gregory Vii
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Homer
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History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce
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Rulers were made to be broken.

Michael Isenberg
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For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

Pico Iyer
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Catullus
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It's very meticulous. We use rulers to measure distances between buttons and ribbons.

Melanie Sutrathada
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A debate is raging within the administration. They are taking a second look at the entire process of exerting pressure on authoritarian rulers in the Middle East.

Fawaz Gerges
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Middle East rulers are delighted at the prospect of a less demanding stance from the American government.

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

Lord William Beveridge
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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Charles Adams
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By doing this, he (Blair) is setting an example to the tyrant rulers of the Muslim world, encouraging them to further suppress their populations.

Imran Waheed
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The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers.

Ayman Al zawahri
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I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war continues, the people renew their allegiance to their rulers and politicians and continue to send their sons to our countries to fight us.

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

Nikita Khrushchev
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The Mayans did not have currency per se, so the rulers would tax the people by making them pay in whatever was needed in their court, whether it was cacao beans, corn, beans, or bird feathers.

Paul Gepts
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