The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.

Some of us are philosophers, some are artists, some are rulers and some are some-others. But, we all are makers and proud labors.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on...

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men...

You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you’ve been ruling the world?On butchery and murder!

{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that...

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the...

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the main springs or wheels in a machine that keep every part in their...

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get...

God is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities.

It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you want to maintain that change, then be the ruler to rule the pen’s...

In the privacy of my dreams, I’m a warrior.

A country is judged by the actions at the top. Such is the way across the world. Nations are judged by their rulers, and not by those that live within the borders.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people generally do not. They fail to understand that reaching the highest levels of...