Rule Quotes

The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Big guy and little guy, it should make no difference. The rule of law demands neutrality.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Treat each other the way you would like to be treated.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

It is not good to have a rule of many.