Rule Quotes

Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Learn the rules, and then forget them.

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.