Rule Quotes

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

For understanding in spiritual matters, the golden rule is not intellect but obedience.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Put yourself in your customer's place.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.