Rule Quotes

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

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.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

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

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.