To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

Whoso obedience from his subjects seeks,
'Tis fitting that he first should learn to rule.

It is the law of service. He who wishes to live long must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long...

People are difficult to be ruled, Because the ruler governs with personal desire and establishes too many laws to confuse the people.

In friendship false, implacable in hate,
Resolved to ruin, or to rule the state.

Who himself cannot control
Why should he o'er others rule?

What is governing to a man that can rule himself? If he cannot rule himself, how shall he rule others?

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.

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 people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.