In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.