Ivan the Terrible:

I am the shepherd of my flock, and I will protect them from wolves.

— Ivan the Terrible Early Modern

First Tsar of Russia

A paternalistic but also threatening metaphor for his rule, implying protection from internal and external enemies.

c. 1570s

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