The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
'What is your desired salary?' The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
As a general rule, if you are prone to melodramatic meltdowns, please avoid purchasing a webcam for any reason.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.
Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
