Rule Quotes

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have d...

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain...

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off th...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with d...

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness ...

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Well, I am no village cunning woman, no frightened merry-begot, but a woman born to riches, andeduca...

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it ...

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. Tha...

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

What you do not want others to do to you do not do to others.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems wi...

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-governm...

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be ...

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory let us now commit it to life.

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast but never sinks.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bot...

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of actio...

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but a...

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule,...

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit ...

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by...

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party...

It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter.

I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not ta...

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than n...

Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: ...

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liber...

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad a...

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first on...

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while...

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress and that is continuously incessantl...

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

Number rules the universe.

Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possib...

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our h...

And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of ...

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political b...

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...

The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functio...

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the ma...

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion th...

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I neve...

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when...

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable...