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The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.
- Aristotle
When then the law has spoken in general terms, and there arises a case of exception to the general rule, it is proper, in so far as the lawgiver omits the case and by reason of his universality of statement is wrong, to set right the omission by ruling it as the lawgiver himself would rule were he there present, and would have provided by law had he foreseen the case would arise.
- Aristotle
Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.
- Aesop
If you and I are to appropriate God's grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.
- Jerry Bridges
It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.
- Jerry Bridges
Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.
- Andrew Jackson
The communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be obtained only by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
- Anonymous
America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.
- Lydia Millet
This then is the highest adornment of the Kingdom of Christ, that he rules over his church by his Spirit.
- John Calvin
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
- Aristotle
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
- Eleanor Roosevelt