THIS EDITION: The Politics of Rule

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Quoted In The Grove:

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
~Katharine Whitehorn

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
~Jonathan Swift

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
~Anthony Trollope

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If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
~John Lubbock

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DEMOCRACY

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
~Plato

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
~Walter E Williams

The tendency of unlimited industrialism is to create bodies of men and women‒of all classes‒detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion: in other words, a mob. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. ~TS Eliot

Don’t forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism ‒ it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does vote away the rights of the minority-of-the-moment, even of a single individual. This has been called ‘mob rule,’ the ‘tyranny of the majority’ and many other pejorative names. It is one of the greatest threats to liberty, the reason why America’s founding fathers wrote so much so disparagingly of pure democracy.
~Bert Rand

Only socialism promises the rule of the many and it is the only policy that applies the concept of democracy.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Democracy is blind in itself, that is why we must VOTE for a leader or dictator to rule the mob.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

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Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law… are universal values of the human spirit.
~Robert C O’Brien

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
~Tony Blair

The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression ‒ we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
~Daniel Lubetzky

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
~Richard Lugar

The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.
~Timothy D Snyder

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head;
This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
~Bob Dylan

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The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
~Caroline Kennedy

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it’s inconvenient, if you’re going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
~Jesse Ventura

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.
~Ariel Sharon

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In a free Europe… the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It’s impossible to use one against the other.
~Frans Timmermans

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
~Atifete Jahjaga

I think one of the brilliant parts of our democracy is how resilient it is. We are each allowed to have our own beliefs and, as long as we follow the rule of law, we can express them however we’d like. This is a unique characteristic of the best democracies and one I value tremendously.
~Brad Feld (entrepreneur)

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Actual threats to American democracy range from voter suppression and unaccountable ‘dark money’ to explicit efforts to engineer ‘minority rule’ in Washington and racialized policymaking meant to burden historically disfavored minorities.
~Jamelle Bouie

We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.
~Joshua Wong (Hong Kong)

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
~Chinua Achebe

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While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they’re the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.
~Dan Bongino

If you love freedom, then you’re going to have to pay for it. Not only by paying taxes but by making the commitment to live by the principles that is essential for freedom to survive. That includes respecting the rule of law and if you have set that aside for political reasons, then you are a threat to our democracy and our freedoms.
~RJ Intindola

Accomplished leaders in a democracy never diverge from the rule of law, foundational values and traditions.
~RJ Intindola (City Mgr, Hallandale Beach, FL)

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule ‒ and both commonly succeed, and are right.
~H L Mencken

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POLITICS, general

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers ‒ and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.
~Ayn Rand

The greatest violator of the principle of equal liberty is the State. Its functions are to control, to rule, to dictate, to regulate, and in exercising these functions it interferes with and injures individuals who have done no wrong. The objection to government is, not that it controls those who invade the liberty of others, but that it controls the non-invader. It may be necessary to govern one who will not govern himself, but that in no wise justifies governing one who is capable of and willing to govern himself. To argue that because some need restraint all must be restrained is neither consistent nor logical.
~Charles T Sprading

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
~Ayn Rand

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?
~Ayn Rand

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Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you.
~Albert Jay Nock

Voting the wrong ones to rule and expecting the incredible and fertile outcome, shows idiocy and wrong choice.
~Ehsan Sehgal

A lot of wisdom should go into choosing who to love you, and more to choose who to rule you…
~Mariana Fulger

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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
~Henry Louis Mencken

One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people.
~Douglas Adams

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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
~C S Lewis

To be under the rule of wise figures is more valuable and beneficial than ruling the idiot and fool ones.
~Ehsan Sehgal

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
~Albert Einstein

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People can’t support a good person amongst them, so how could those be good who rule the population.
~Anuj Somany

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
~Edward Abbey

When state and government have gone, laws must go. People who speak of “laws” in a communistic society, think perhaps only of those general rules of sensible and noble conduct which every good man finds it easy to observe. But in that case they use a wrong word. A law is a rule connected with an apparatus to compel obedience. Behind the law stand the court, the sheriff, the police, the hangman, etc., and who wants them? None, we guess.
~Johann Most

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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
~Emil Cioran

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Madness is rare in individuals ‒ but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
~Mark Twain

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It is aspiring tyrants who say that ‘civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.’ Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.
~Timothy D Snyder

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
~Julian Assange

The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, …established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the King’s Bank to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave.
~Louis McFadden

Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the ‘Today‘ show, ‘No, I don’t think it should be overturned.’ Three days later, her husband reimposed the ‘global gag rule’ on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning.
~Molly Ivins

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That’s a pretty good rule.
~Daniel Ellsberg

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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.
~Kofi Annan (ex-Sec Gen, UN)

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
~Walter Cronkite

Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based set of international relations, based on the rule of law and in accordance with the U.N. Charter.
~Antonio Guterres (Sec Gen, UN)

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
~Jeffrey Sachs

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
~Michael Mandelbaum

When it comes to dealing with the world’s climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.
~Thomas Friedman

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Social justice for parties like the DMK, DK and the PMK is nothing but practising dynasty politics. Their concept of social justice is successor and family rule.
~Tamilisai Soundararajan (Ind pol)

Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.
~Sun Yat-sen

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The No. 1 rule in any negotiation is don’t take yourself hostage. People do this to themselves all the time by being desperate for ‘yes’ or afraid of ‘no,’ so they don’t ask for what they really want. Instead, they ask for what they can realistically get. I’ve heard many people say, ‘Well, that’s a non-starter, so we won’t even bring it up.’
~Christopher Voss

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
~Barry Eisler

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Rather than abide by the rule of law, Maduro and his cronies follow mafia-style practices, intimidating the opposition by targeting their family members.
~Morgan Ortagus

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history’s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
~Michael Johns

So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
~Pankaj Mishra

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
~Stephen Kinzer

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
~Anders Fogh Rasmussen (ex-PM Denmark / ex-Sec Gen, UN)

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What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.
~Robert Zubrin

Vietnam’s Communist Party is one-party rule but we also have principles of democracy and accountability of the leaders. Otherwise the faults would be blamed on the entire group and merits would be credited to the individual.
~Nguyen Phu Trong

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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
~P.J O’Rourke

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
~Winston Churchill

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
~John Galsworthy

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else’s idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.
~Marco Rubio

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With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
~Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel, imprisoned)

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I wish every international or national corporate would be given a rule to set up companies in rural areas, where they would have to provide hospitals, schools, low-cost housing and free medical care, training, and then employment ‒ but not on agricultural land.
~Raveena Tandon (Ind actor)

I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium… Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors.
~Andrew Carnegie

The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.
~Mariana Fulger

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Germans are Rulers, not to be Ruled.
~Hitler/Goebbels maxim

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
~Euripides

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In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the State to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides.
~William Barr

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It was the British who defined religion to divide and rule [India/Pakistan]. That is what created the heat. That is what created the cut. Partition happened because of the rulers, fueled by a few powerful families on both sides who stood to gain. It is the politicians that keep everyone fighting.
~Gulzar (Ind Urdu poet)

Historical radicalism and today’s radicalism gained and achieved only the outward glamour of style and system, not the inward changing of thought, conduct, and distinction. As a fact, the conception, whether colonialism, imperialism, and such isms still exist; …Fool the public; rule the republic.
– Ehsan Sehgal

Religion is the best weapon to rule or use a nation if you know how to use it.
~Bahram Baloch

It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
~Will Durant

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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
~Cecil Rhodes

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Britan’s unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
~Pankaj Mishra

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
~P J O’Rourke

Abolish or violate any law, rule, or constitution is the act of disloyalty to the state and its people; it does not fall under the good faith; it is the way of the traitor. Giving legal status such a traitor to any reason is itself a crime.
~Ehsan Sehgal

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.
~John A Hobson

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
~Seneca

Don’t let it rule you: it will ruin you…
~Maria Ramirez Bolanos (MRB)

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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible… Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?… It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
~George Washington

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.
~Noah Webster (in 1787)

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
~Arthur Koestler

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
~Friedrich August von Hayek

There is no rule of thumb when it comes to survival. Everything is allowed, even behaving like a wild animal.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
~Carl Sagan

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Once you have become president, you must also stop being a politician. Because you can’t expect to rule all citizens while being a fanatic of your one political party.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo (Congolese author)

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
~Confucius

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Divide and rule, the politician cries;
unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
~Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
~Goethe

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While I’m leader, nothing will be off limits ‒ there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
~Johann Lamont (Scot parliament)

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
~Bob Woodward

Here, the people rule.
~Gerald R Ford

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
~Hannah Arendt

I am a truth teller I’m on the side of the justice and the rule of law. I’ve been a lawyer for a very long time, (…). The only reason I’m against this president right now is because he finds himself on the wrong side of the law consistently.
~Michael Avenatti

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A learned duffer at the higher position of the nation or an organization is as dangerous for the population as an illiterate/pseudo graduate bluffer at the same peak post because under the rule of any of them, only sincere & industrious people have to suffer a lot whereas bootlickers, pretenders and betrayers enjoy the most.
~Anuj Somany

Authority intoxicates, / And makes mere sots of magistrates; / The fumes of it invade the brain, / And make men giddy, proud, and vain; / By this the fool commands the wise, / The noble with the base complies, / The sot assumes the rule of wit, / And cowards make the base submit.
~Samuel Butler

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So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged ‘good’ can justify it ‒ there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.
~Ayn Rand

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.
~Václav Havel

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Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today’s rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.
~Donald Trump

When President Donald Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development. At the top of the list was the Obama Administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States rule.
~Andrew R Wheeler

President Trump and his administration have made an intensive effort to roll back President Obama’s big-government regulations, the worst of which was the Waters of the United States rule. That rule was the poster child for overreaching bureaucrats giving the federal government far-reaching powers over individual landowners.
~Cindy Hyde-Smith

It’s unsurprising that while Americans and Donald Trump are working to re-establish the rule of law and rebuild civil society in America, CNN once again flies off the handle and tries to make everything about race in order to keep Americans divided.
~Corey Stewart

Joe Biden and the Democrats like to use the balance of Democracy as a cheap political slogan while consistently subverting the rule of law and the very system of government they claim to be saving.
~Byron Donalds (FL Rep)

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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
~Pat Buchanan

The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree.
~Timothy D Snyder

Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish crush on Putin’s gangster swagger and his contempt for democracy, Trump wants to rule with his family, taking decisions purely because he’s right about everything like a tsar.
~Simon Sebag Montefiore

Crafty fox talks about the contest of Wolf Vs Jackal and asks others in the forest whom they support and who they want to select and only asses make the choices . Dog knows it is a way to divide & rule to make animals fool again because Wolf and Jackal are either cousin brothers or brother and sister… they still continue to play the old divide and rule game to accuse & blame each other for the atrocity and injustice on animals just to make lame claim that they are in opposition of each other. When both are seen partying together or at the same place, their crony partner fox comes to their rescue
~Anuj Somany

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.
~Joy Reid

The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today’s Republican party with America’s traditional rule of law. It has become a constitutional imperative.
~Heather Cox Richardson

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Harvested from the Net

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LAW

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.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
~Warren E Burger (USSC, CJ)

As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.
~Antonin Scalia (USSC, AJ)

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We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution ‒ and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.
~Cass Sunstein

The Frist fairness rule [anti-filibuster, rejected] guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.
~Mitch McConnell (Sen, KY)

How we decide the vexed issue of the method of selection of judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts would determine the future of our democracy and the rule of law in the country. We are faced with the twin problem of selecting the best judges and also ensuring that the judiciary would be insulated from executive interference.
~Prashant Bhushan (Ind author/lawyer)

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Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens’ political and civil rights.
~Rebecca MacKinnon (digital/human rights activist)

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
~Jonathan Sacks

Breaking and breaching of law, rule, or principle, for transparent justice to save human rights and lives of people in danger is not the violation of such juristic and moral terms.
~Ehsan Sehgal

It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. … Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.
~William Howard Taft

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
~Abraham Lincoln

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The very idea of law originates in men’s natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.
~Lysander Spooner

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the ‘no duty to rescue rule’ that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
~Jonathan Turley

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
~John Dryden

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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
~Oliver Goldsmith

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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
~Saint Bernard (Benedictine monk of Clairvaux, or of Menthon, in Alps)

If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.
~Barbara Jordan (TX Dem)

The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president’s lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.
~Heather Cox Richardson (historian)

Because, when it comes to restoring the rule of law, I can’t change my mind and I won’t change the subject.
~Kris Kobach (Att Gen, KS)

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When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who ‒ they would find any law; they would find a loophole and a way around it and often very tendentious and not true, and, you know, these are people who didn’t respect the rule of law. But, you know, those people were there.
~Neal Katyal (ex-Principal Deputy Solicitor General, US)

Stare decisis [to stand by things decided], which is the principle that the Supreme Court uses at the outset ‒ the sort of background rule of judicial maintenance or precedence, in order to have predictability, stability in the law ‒ is the kind of principle the court begins with, if it’s asked to overrule or revisit a precedent.
~Ketanji Brown Jackson (USSC, AJ)

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
~Benjamin N Cardozo (USSC, AJ)

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The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.
~Jean-Claude Juncker

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
~Sonia Sotomayor (USSC, AJ)

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The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal, for all, till changed by the same high political power which made it. This is what entitles it to its sovereign weight.
~Levi Woodbury (USSC, AJ)

The promise I’ve tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of Congress will be at the heart of what the FBI does.
~James Comey

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.
~Morgan Ortagus (US diplomat, intelligence analyst, political advisor)

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You can’t expect to rule anyone with the memorised laws inside your head, but you must adapt your attitude according to the time in which you are currently living
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
~Nick Rahall

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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
~Isaac D’Israeli

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.
~Murray Rothbard

The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.
~Theodor Mommsen

The Roman Empire was completely destroyed when many European nations decided to move away from Roman rule and instead set their sights on home rule.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

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History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of self-evident truths grounded in the laws of nature and nature’s God, every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
~Everett Piper

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
~Eugene V Debs

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Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race‒small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.
~Sitting Bull (of Custer’s Last Stand)

By the time of the Civil War, there were many kinds of apples growing across the United States, but most of them didn’t taste very good, and as a rule, people didn’t eat them. Cider was cheaper to make than beer, and many settlers believed fermented drinks were safer than water. Everyone drank hard cider.
~John Seabrook

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