Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.