Conventions Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state.…

— Lord Acton

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

— Gerald R. Ford

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong,…

— Confucius

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

— Huey Long

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and…

— Anonymous

“What is governing to a man that can rule himself? If he cannot rule himself, how shall he rule others?”

— Confucius

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

— David McCallum

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

— Honore de Balzac

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend…

— Allan Bloom

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit…

— James F. Cooper

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

— Giambattista Vico