Several thousand years of human history from Pharaoh, Alexander, Caesar, Suleiman, Genghis, Napoleon, Stalin, to Mao all disagree. Amusingly of those listed it was only Julius Caesar who actually paid a real price for what they did and it wasn't the people that did it, the people loved him, it was his fellow elite that did him in.

Several thousand years of human history from Pharaoh, Alexander, Caesar, Suleiman, Genghis, Napoleon, Stalin, to Mao all disagree. Amusingly of those listed it was only Julius Caesar who actually paid the real price for what they did and it wasn't the people that did it, they loved him, it was his fellow elite that did him in.