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Rule Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
- The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
- 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…
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- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
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- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- One man's style must not be the rule of another's. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — Edward Abbey
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams