Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. John Ruskin
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them. Lysander Spooner
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature. Joseph H. Hertz
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion. William the Silent
Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me. Dante Alighieri
If the cockroach wants to rule over the chicken, then it must hire the fox as a body-guard. Chadian Proverb