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| Rulers Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old. | Burmese Proverb | |
| 2 | A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. | Byron | Lord |
| 3 | Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen: Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet show: Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire. | Churchill | Charles |
| 4 | Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. | Dryden | John |
| 5 | And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. | Tennyson | Alfred |
| 6 | And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. | Tennyson | Alfred |
| 7 | What should it be, that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought--the magic of the Mind! Linked with success, assumed and kept with skill. That moulds another's weakness to its will. | Byron | Lord |
| 8 | Tis thus the spirit of a single mind Makes that of multitudes take one direction. | Byron | Lord |
| 9 | For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. | Goldsmith | Oliver |
| 10 | A cutpurse of the empire and the rule. That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket! | Shakespeare | William |
| 12 quotations on Rulers |



