Rulers

Examples

• The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Even the subsidy by rulers of privately conducted schools must be carefully safeguarded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Being lofty about the passing fad and the ephemeral outcry is all very well in the biographies of dead men, but rank nonsense in the rulers of real ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Plainly, like all changes of government, from division in the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
• But they cannot be allowed to live in licentiousness; that is an unholy thing, which the rulers are determined to prevent. Plato. The Republic.
• Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• O death and change, rulers of our life, where are ye, that I may grapple with you! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It has become one of the grim trade jokes of innovators that the one thing you can count upon is that the rulers will come to think that they are the apex of human development. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He exclaims, O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the future reckon with this man? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But the old faith of the kings, owners, and rulers of the opening twentieth century had faded under the actinic light of scientific criticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There flourished the first temples and the first priest-rulers that we know of among mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And in our State what other name besides that of citizens do the people give the rulers? Plato. The Republic.
• But generation after generation the spirit was abused by priests and rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rulers are simply interested in such training as will make their subjects better tools for their own intentions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And if there be any State in which rulers and subjects will be agreed as to the question who are to rule, that again will be our State? Plato. The Republic.
• These rulers were for the most part of the ordinary eastern type, cunning, treacherous, and blood-stained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Within two decades of the crucifixion this new religion was already attracting the attention of the Roman rulers in several provinces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And what do the rulers call the people? Plato. The Republic.
• Greasy or not greasy, they will govern _you_, when their time comes, said Augustine; and they will be just such rulers as you make them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But are the rulers of states absolutely infallible, or are they sometimes liable to err? Plato. The Republic.
• I will; and first tell me, Do you admit that it is just for subjects to obey their rulers? Plato. The Republic.
• Both in England and on the Continent the ascendant rulers seized upon Christianity as a unifying force to cement their conquests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the rulers of the Roman Empire did not want their citizens to fight for anything in any spirit at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But is there not another name which people give to their rulers in other States? Plato. The Republic.
• And the citizens being thus agreed among themselves, in which class will temperance be found--in the rulers or in the subjects? Plato. The Republic.
• You are the levers of the Circumlocution Office, and the rulers of men. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Everywhere the provincial rulers set up for themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am inclined to think that this is the sort of way in which our rulers and guardians should be chosen and appointed. Plato. The Republic.
• And would you have the future rulers of your ideal State intelligent beings, or stupid as posts? Plato. The Republic.
• Generally they call them masters, but in democratic States they simply call them rulers. Plato. The Republic.

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