Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? — Henry Fielding
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic… — Denis Waitley
That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be… — Pope Gregory XVI
Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule. — John Longenecker
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy… — P.J. O'Rourke
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the… — Jimmy Carter
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. — Michael Pollan
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us… — Billy Joel
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has… — Joseph Pulitzer
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. — Roger Rosenblatt
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is… — Saul Alinsky
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the… — Alexander Hamilton
It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness… — Alexander Hamilton
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the… — Thomas Jefferson
`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every… — George Washington
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,… — Ronald Reagan
A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment. — Laurie Helgoe
Thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired. — Dale Carnegie
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and… — Aristotle
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? — Alexander Hamilton

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