No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine though I have not quarrelled with him?

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.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

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.