Rule Quotes

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t.

The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it’s not the poorest. It’s not the people at the economic fringes. It’s people who worked hard and played by the rules.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.