He who hath the gold maketh the rule.

-Anonymous
  Inscription on plaque in  Armand Hammer's bedroom. Quoted in Regardie's, Feb.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

-Astell, Mary
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

There is nothing new inThird World governments seeking to justifyand perpetuate authoritarian rule by denouncing liberal democratic principles as alien.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
  Freedom From Fear,'In Quest of Democracy'.

For it isa true Rulethat Love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.10,'Of Love'.

The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealthöthe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon† From this our aristocracy preserves us.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.4,'The House of Lords'.

The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is 'Do anything you can get away with'.

-Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

'That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.' 'It's the oldest rule in the book,'said the King. 'Then it ought to be Number One,'said Alice.

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.12, 'Alice's Evidence'.

   The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterdayöbut never jam to-day.

-Dodgson
  The White Queen. Through the Looking-Glass, ch.5,'Wool and Water'.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

-'the Censor'
Criticizing the prevalent domination of women. Quoted (in Greek) in Plutarch Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, pt.198d (translated by F C Babbitt).

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a loverönever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

-Charles I
  Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!

-Christiansen, Arthur
Headlines all my Life, ch.18.

It is an axiom enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

-Connolly,James
  Socialism Made Easy.

Je pouvais prendre pour re'  gle ge¤  ne¤  rale, que les choses que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement sont toutes vraies. I could take it as a general rule that whatever we conceive very clearly and very distinctly is true.

-Descartes, Rene¤
  Discours de la me¤  thode (Discourse on Method), 4th discourse (translated by G E M  Anscombe and Peter Geach).

Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Jonas Chuzzlewit. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.11.

It is procedure that spells much of the difference between rule by law and rule by whim or caprice.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
  Ruling to strike the  Joint  Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and two other organizations from the  Attorney General's list of subversive groups until final adjudication, 30  Apr.

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Sign of Four, ch.2.

In friendship false, implacable in hate: Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.173^4.

Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.1, l.261^2.

The first rule of intelligenttinkering istosavealltheparts.

-Ehrlich, Paul Ralph
In the Saturday Review, 5  Jun.

It is a standing insult tosportsmen to have to play undera rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

-Fry, C(harles) B(urgess)
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).