Rule Quotes

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.

Whoa, boy, he told himself. Golden Rule for Demigods: Thou shalt not Hokey Pokey with psychos.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.

September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.

People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.

The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

What you do not want others to do to you do not do to others.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Galileo, yet men turn around women!

If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by.

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

What we do is what means the most.

We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.

She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I.