Aristotle Quotes

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

Governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.

You make men love their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love.

When the government leads by the right example, who dares to go astray.

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

The most basic building block of any successful government is, first and foremost, a moral authority over the people it leads.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

To rule means to exercise power, and only he who possesses power can exercise it. This direct connection of power and rule forms the fundamental truth of all politics and the key to all history.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.

I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.