Rule Quotes

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

No people likes to be ruled by foreigners.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

See, I have taken England with both my hands

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

There never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

Gold is power Aurum est Potestas

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].

Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state..

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

Law and order is the first and topmost priority.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

The king is from God, the law from the king.

I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.

I’m the constitution around here now.

Now we are governed by gentlemen.

I am the law in Indiana.

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.