Quotes about Rule
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus wants men who will rule well.
- Tony Evans
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
- John Adams
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.
- Ezra Taft Benson
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
- Thomas a Kempis
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
- John Henry Newman
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.
- John Keats
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
- Edmund Burke
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
- Roger Williams
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
- Eric Metaxas
We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
- William Henry Harrison