Quotes About Rule

No people overcharged with tribute, is fit for empire.

For the remedies; there may be some general preservatives, whereof we will speak: as for the just cure, it must answer to the particular disease; and so be left to counsel, rather than rule.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

As it is, Al Jazeera is mostly funded by grants from the emir of Qatar-Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose family has ruled the country since the mid-1800s.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

Also note that only 50 percent of your meal costs can be deducted while traveling.

I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate, Abhorsen said quietly. I know the secrets and horrors of the Nine Precincts. I do not know what lies beyond, but everything that lives must go there, in the proper time. That is the rule that governs our work as the Abhorsen, but it also governs us. You are the fifty-third Abhorsen, Sabriel. I have not taught you as well as I should—let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Thank you," said Lirael. "I am glad you didn't leave us out in the cold, despite rule thirty-four." "Rule thirty-six," corrected Mirelle, straight-faced as ever.

Mark L. Schneider. Placing Security and Rule of Law on the Development Agenda. Washington, DC: World Bank (2009). 14.

For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. You rule throughout all generations. The Lord always keeps his promises; he is gracious in all he does. —Psalm 145:13

Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power. These

And take this for a general rule: Every counsel which is affirmed so strongly that it may not be changed for any condition that may befall, I say this counsel is wicked.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Our founders recognized that 'men were not angels' and that checks and balances in government were critical to avoid threats to the rule of law.

Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.

With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: 'How can you, as a man, talk about three women?'

The rule of thumb is, if you feel chest pains, chew on an aspirin to thin the blood rapidly.

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.